Cloning the Smell of the Sea 143
An anonymous reader wrote in with an article that opens: "Scientists from the University of East Anglia have discovered exactly what makes the seaside smell like the seaside — and bottled it. The age-old mystery was unlocked thanks to some novel bacteria plucked from the North Norfolk coast." The responsible substance, dimethyl sulfide, in addition to smelling like the coast, also acts as a homing scent for birds looking to feast on plankton.
Smell of the sea? (Score:3, Informative)
Life imitates Seinfeld (Score:3, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pick_(Seinfeld_e
Re:intresting (Score:4, Informative)
You didn't have to wait. It has been known that dimethyl sulfide is the main component of the smell for many years. I distinctly remember it being mentioned when I was in high school, and that was in the '70s.
Re:intresting (Score:5, Informative)
New biosynthetic pathway for dimethyl sulphide discovered
Dimethyl sulphide is used in petroleum refining, steel mills and as a feed stock for the important solvent dimethyl sulfoxide. It is hoped that these the new bacterial synthetic pathway can replace the current polluting industrial process with a cleaner greener biosynthetic process.
Dont forget Ambergris (Score:4, Informative)
Mmmm... DMS (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Is this news? (Score:1, Informative)
Is It The High Tide Or Low Tide Aroma? (Score:3, Informative)