Volume 92 Issue 49 | p. 41
Issue Date: December 8, 2014

Periodic Graphics: Scents Of The Season


Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning explores the molecular basis of holiday smells
Department: Science & Technology
Keywords: holiday, aroma, cinnamon, cloves, pine, pinene, roasted chestnuts, eugenol, syringol, furfural, gingerbread, zingerone
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Periodic Graphics is a collaboration between C&EN and Andy Brunning, chemistry educator and author of the popular graphics blog Compound Interest. To see more of Brunning’s work, go to compoundchem.com. Check out all of C&EN’s Periodic Graphics here.

• To download a pdf of this article, visit http://cenm.ag/scents.

 
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Comments
Zahir (Wed Dec 17 19:02:57 EST 2014)
An excellent article. You should publish something more on Spices and fOOD Flavouring materials such as Saffron, etc.
Thank you again.
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Chuck (Fri Oct 20 12:21:26 EDT 2017)
The Periodic Graphics series of "factoid" presentations is an outstanding way to communicate a lot of chemistry in a minimum of space. Congratulations, this is a marvelous way to stimulate the general public's interest in chemistry.
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