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How far can a human smell?

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Smells do not radiate like light from a flare. They re carried by air currents and to a lesser case diffusion. As a result a strongg smell in a draftees environment will reach toy eventually and will ultimately permeate all the air in the space without directionality.With a current of air a strong smell can cary for several hundreds of kilometres. This would include smoky smells for forest fires, losses of chemicals like butyl-amines .

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