Concept explainers
Interpretation:
The generalization that can be made between smell and molecule must be explained.
Concept introduction:
A compound has smell if the molecule can bind with nasal receptor and a nerve impulse reaches brain.
Answer to Problem 1TAI
A compound has characteristic smell when molecules from the compound reaches and binds with the nasal receptors.
Explanation of Solution
Different molecules have different structural features. The arrangements of atoms and
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