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Ted Talks: Luca Turin: The Science of Scent

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Ted Talks: Luca Turin: The Science of Scent
The explanation of the mechanism of smell seems somewhat implausible, but, yes, there are a variety of ways one could make a nanoscale IR spectrometer. Another option would be to look for resonant energy transfer, not between a tunnelling electron, but between a vibrational excitation in another molecule and the test molecule.
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Nov 10, 2008 12:47 PM
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