when you smell something, that thing is slowly dissolving

fing3r@feddit.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 65 points –

Like a very slow alka-seltzer

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Yes but that's not actually 100% always true.

There are enzymatic reactions and some ionizing ones that don't expend the substrate just the air around them, for instance ozone from sparks and probably some some nitrous oxide reactions that are just the air being reconstituted.

Yes, I'm that asshole. Still a good thought.