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Perfumes contain volatile vapors of sweet-smelling compounds that diffuse in air when the bottle is opened. Gaseous molecules move at several hundred meters per second, and so smells can travel quickly across a room.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe perfume evaporates, and its molecules enter the air to be detected as smells. By the process called diffusion, the molecules spread to the air in other parts of the room (generally from an area of higher concentration to lower).
Perfume scents are among the most easily detected, with as little as a few parts per million in the air.
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∙ 13y agoThere are a couple of things at work here, drafts and breezes aside. One is that the perfume is volatile. The perfume is designed with ingredients that give it a pleasant and attractive aroma, but also some that cause it to evaporate and leave the skin or whatever it is on. The now airborne molecules travel around via the process of diffusion, and that's how they get to you so you can detect them, even though you may be some distance off in an environment where the air is still.
because the molecules move freely and quickly .there is no force restrict the motion of the molecules in gases.
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∙ 13y agoMolecules in the air are bouncing around and moving very fast. When you speak, you are causing movements in the air particles. This means that particles in the air are moving close to the speed of sound. So when you smell perfume from several meters away, its because those organic molecules have traveled far enough to find your nose.
The process is called simple diffusion, and it is the movement of molecules from a high concentration to a low concentration, until equilibrium is reached. The can be through a medium of air or water.
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∙ 14y agoAll smells are particulate, which means that there are small particles of the perfume that evaporate and gets carried by the air from the source to your nose.
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∙ 11y agoPerfume is volatile substance and gas has more intermolecular spaces so when we use perfume its particle spread several meters away and we can smell it
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∙ 13y agobecause when the bottle opened the particles present in it mixed with air and travels other end of the room.
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∙ 9y agoThe perfume molecules evaporate and diffuse in the atmosphere. Your nose detects these molecules.
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∙ 10y agobecause of diffusion
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Why is it that you can smell perfume several meters away give reason?
Perfume evaporates, the perfume molecules diffuse through the air and reach your nose, enabling you to smell them.
Why you can smell the jasmine flower while you are sitting several meters away?
Because the molecules that make up the scent diffuse through the air from where they are in high concentration to where they are low in concentration until they are evenly distributed.
Why do you smell an open bottle of perfume in a room?
why can the odor of perfume reach you?
Why do perfumes always smell like chemicals?
A lot of perfumes have alcohol listed as one of the main ingredients. Perfume may smell like chemicals because of the certain chemicals in it. Maybe read the ingredients on the perfume bottle to figure it out.
Does raffinee perfume by Dana smell exactly the same as raffinee perfume made in the early 1980's?
No, although they both smell nice and similar, they are not the same.
Why is it that you can smell perfume several meters away give reason?
Perfume evaporates, the perfume molecules diffuse through the air and reach your nose, enabling you to smell them.
Use diffusion to explain why you can smell the perfume of someone who is sitting several seats away from you in class.?
Diffusion is the moving of particles from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration. The smell of perfume is strongest on the person's body, and diffuses outward to wherever the smell is weaker.
Why perfume can be smelt from a few meters away?
This happens because when the perfume is sprayed the gas is diffuese into the air
How can you still smell perfume if some one is standing some meters away from you?
Because the molecules of the perfume diffuse easy in the atmosphere.
What are high notes when the smell of a perfume is being described?
Top or head notes in reference to the smell of a perfume is the initial smell of the perfume when applied. They form a person's initial impression of a perfume and thus are very important in the selling of the product.
Why you can smell bacon from several meters away?
Because it is hot and fresh.
What is the vision of perfume?
A perfume is appreciated by smell/odour, not vision.
Why you can smell the jasmine flower while you are sitting several meters away?
Because the molecules that make up the scent diffuse through the air from where they are in high concentration to where they are low in concentration until they are evenly distributed.
How do you sell smell?
perfume.
Does a cockroach have a perfume smell?
No.
What smell reminds people of their mother?
The perfume smell of the perfume their mothers wore usually reminds people of their mothers.
What the boy perfume say to the girl perfume?
Hey you smell nice I don't make a lot of scents but if I did they'd smell like you.
