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James32 says:

As far as I know what you are smelling is particles that enter the nose and attatch to the smell recepticals in the nose and which then gets processed by the brain so I dont think that breathing back out for someone else to smell it would work.

Please someone correct me if I am wrong though.

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posted on 2009-10-16 09:37:50 | Report abuse


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boabusmaximus says:

lol, i imagine you came to last word after everyone you knew refused to help with your 'experiments' :)

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posted on 2009-10-16 14:59:36 | Report abuse


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Evergreen says:

The components of the odor trigger specific nerve endings in your nose by binding to cell surface receptors and thus trigger a recognition response from your brain.  The amount of components that are contained in air that you breathed in have to be in a sufficient part per million to trigger the nerve cell.  Once you breath out those components (only those that did not bind in a cell surface in your nose), the chance of your exhalent containing enough components to trigger someone else's odor detection process would be low. 

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posted on 2009-10-19 19:07:08 | Report abuse


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