I passed a dead skunk on the curb this morning and the smell lingered almost until I got to work like five minutes later. How exactly does that odor manage to stay around for so long? You’d think after a few seconds you’d drive out of the affected area.
If I was wearing infrared goggles or something would there just be a mushroom cloud of stank taking up full city blocks?
I just don’t get it!
In: Chemistry
It’s about how sensitive you are to it – chemicals in skunk spray can be detected at concentrations of a few parts per *billion*. That means you can smell it for a looooooong time, since even a few molecules can “contaminate” quite a lot of air.
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