woodchurch science

above is a picture of a bottle of caproic acid (or hexanoic acid) that has a very distinctive odour. see it’s entry in the merck catalogue alongside: now what exactly is ‘goat-like’? seems you’d have to be overly familiar with barnyard animals to recognise that as a smell.

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