How can you wash germs and dirt off your hands but not some smells?

792 views

Your hands stay stinky even when they’re clean. Such as a fish smell lingers on the skin hours after fishing and labourously washing hands. Why is that?

In: Chemistry

5 Answers

Anonymous 0 Comments

Skin isn’t smooth and try to think about it like it was a carpet. Germs and bacteria are bigger than smell particles.
Drop some relatively big on the carpet, like a coin, and it’s really easy to pick up, leaving no evidence that there was a coin on your carpet. But then spill sand on it or something powdery, and it would take a really long time to really clean that carpet.

You are viewing 1 out of 5 answers, click here to view all answers.