• Question: When it's really hot it smells strange (but I don't know how to describe it) why is this?

    Asked by spacenut1982 to Christina, Colin, Jess, Samaneh, Steve on 19 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Christina Pagel

      Christina Pagel answered on 19 Jun 2013:


      hmmm – i guess it’s because when things get very hot, it can cause chemical reactions and some of those might reactions might result in gases that weren’t there before, causing a funny smell..?

    • Photo: Jess Bean

      Jess Bean answered on 20 Jun 2013:


      Also, when it is hot the air warms up as well. This means the chemicals that cause smells can travel more and further, meaning you can probably smell things that you wouldn’t smell if it was cold or raining!

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