• @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    57 months ago

    Smells are very localized

    Smells are airborne. They move with the air.

    You can walk into a house and tell they’re cooking dinner, just by smells that have traveled 50 feet from the kitchen to the front door.

    • @marcos@lemmy.world
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      47 months ago

      Dispersion varies widely due to the kind of smell, intensity, and air circulation.

      Most smells do not travel 50 feet.

      • @hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de
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        07 months ago

        Most smells do not travel 50 feet.

        I have to counter that in my experience most, if not all smells travel 15m. When the wind is right that increases massively.