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THE low-frequency vibrations of organic molecules are largely unexplored, so that it is difficult to test directly the hypothesis that odours may be correlated with them1. An indirect test was therefore devised.
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WRIGHT, R. Odour and Molecular Vibration. Nature 190, 1101–1102 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1901101a0
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