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For a human to smell a substance, The substance must be volatile, and molecules of it must be airborne and drift near the nose.

The substance must come in contact with an olfactory nerve-ending in the nose.

The olfactory nerve must react, by excitation, to the molecule, sending an electrical impulse to the brain.

The brain must receive and process olfactory (smell) nerve signals.

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