Asteris Masouras 正义 Retweeted Massimo
Can’t wait to smell dead soil bacteria, go on & rain already.https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1023191662972026880 …
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Massimo @Rainmaker1973
The smell of the air after a storm is caused by Geosmin: a chemical released by dead soil bacteria. Humans are sensitive to it, capable of detecting concentrations ~5 parts per trillion. It's theorised in our evolutionary past this helped us seek out water https://buff.ly/2NRhdZJ pic.twitter.com/R6lF4hfsFa
12:10 PM - 29 Jul 2018
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