Loss of weight of musk in a current of dry air

✍ Scribed by Charles B. Bazzoni

• Book ID: 104120246
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1915
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 338 KB
• Volume: 180
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(15)90061-3

✦ Synopsis

of musk has been detected and measured with some accuracy. It must be remembered, however, in dealing with musk granules, that this material is composed of a complex mixture of organic compounds-blood, hair, and sebaceo~as substances--in themselves complex and subject to evaporation, the products of which may or may not be odorous. Further, since the " odor" or the small odor-producing particles may not constitute all of the loss of weight, or, indeed, excepting by presumption, any of it, the results of these experiments can not be applied directly in the formulation of any theory of smell causation. A proper physical method for the differentiation and classification of smells must apparently involve a study of the physical character of the molecules or 7¢ m. ----~ / K l