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How smell works.



The original paper of Luca Turin, as published in Chemical Senses (rejected by
Nature) is at

http://www.physiol.ucl.ac.uk/research/turin_l/chemical_senses_complete.pdf

This is the subject of the current best seller "The Emperor of Scent", Chandler
Burr, Random House. The postulated mechanism is a "biological electron
tunnelling spectrometer"!

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor