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NOTHING is known of the mechanism by which small amounts of odorous material can trigger nervous impulses leading to smell sensations, because the characteristic odour of a substance has not hitherto been securely correlated with any other characteristic property of its molecules.
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WRIGHT, R. Odour and Chemical Constitution. Nature 173, 831 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173831a0
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