As the case count of coronavirus infections continues to rise in China, the number of reported infections among children is remarkably low.
"We're seeing [about] 75,000 total cases at this point, but the literature is only reporting about 100 or so pediatric cases," says Terri Lynn Stillwell, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan.
It's possible that many more kids are infected but don't get sick enough to seek medical treatment. It's also possible that some infected children may develop no symptoms at all.
One of the substances with the lowest odor detection threshold is vanillin, the main component of vanilla extract. Estimates vary, but its odor detection threshold is probably around 0.1 or 0.2 micrograms per cubic meter, significantly lower than ethyl or methyl mercaptan. That means that one or two oil tankers full of vanillin could conceivably be used as an air freshener powerful enough to give the entire Earth a slight scent of vanilla.
There was a scientist who dealt with smells on the radio the other date. His favourite scent was Juniper, because he said it worked best at clearing out the lab smells they could do without.
2,4-dithiapentane is used in truffle oil, but it's also found in bad breath, bad feet and farts. And when they've been using that, it fills up the lab and they need to get shot of it quick.
That means that one or two oil tankers full of vanillin could conceivably be used as an air freshener powerful enough to give the entire Earth a slight scent of vanilla.
My third ex would claim that as evidence that the vanilla tree stank of the faint scent of divinity and do a google search for incense.
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Wed 11 Mar, 2020 07:12 pm
@chai2,
Not all girls . . . my great-grandmother died in 1955 at the age of 105. I was not yet five years old. I was born in 1950, she was born in 1850. She was 49 years old when my grandmother was born.
