Ian Weller’s free software blog » chemistry http://ianweller.org Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:43:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Of notebooks and cucumbers http://ianweller.org/2008/06/10/of-notebooks-and-cucumbers/ http://ianweller.org/2008/06/10/of-notebooks-and-cucumbers/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:05:52 +0000 Ian Weller http://iwtest.nfshost.com/2008/06/10/of-notebooks-and-cucumbers/ This is something weird that I realized: for as long as I can remember, my chemistry laboratory notebook has always smelled like cucumbers.

I’m not sure why, but a Google search for “chemicals that smell like cucumbers kinda maybe told me why:

Morrison describes the smell of 2-nonenal as “pungent cucumbers.”

Apparently my chemistry lab notebook has old lady smell.

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