Food For Thought: Temperature and Odor

 

Do you think the temperature of the room affects the time it takes an odor to get to your nose? Explain your answer. Provide two pieces of scientific reasoning to explain why.

No, I don’t think so. Odor travels by molecules in the air. Unless somehow the temperature molecules block them, I don’t see how it would affect anything. The other reason I think the temperature wouldn’t affect how long it takes an odor to travel through the air is that when I go to the beach on a hot summer day, usually you can still smell a barbecue going on outside.

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