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Why can you smell the dinner cooking upstairs from the kitchen?
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∙ 11y ago
Because during cooking foods support many chemical and physical changes; the released chemical compounds after heating has different odors. These odor particles travel through the air and allow people to smell the cooking food from various distances.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe reason you can smell food from upstairs is because the food smell particles spread out and mix with the air. Also air and other gases fill in any shape what so ever. So when the food smell particles mix with air they will find tiny gaps and fill them slowly.
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∙ 9y agoThe scent of the ingredients in the food circulates around with the air.
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∙ 13y agoYou can smell food from a distance because the scent diffuses into the air.
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Can smell be observed but not measured?
smell can not be measured but can be observed
Why can you smell things hot things but not smell cold things?
Its like water. Can you smell water? NO! So the cold things have ice on them, and the ice is made of water. You can't smell it. You can't smell boiling water either, so that argument doesn't hold.Other things smell when its cold like petrol (gasoline).AnswerWhen things are heated the molecules vibrate more rapidly, some molecules may gain enough energy the become a gas, but not all of them or your chocolate bar would evaporate! The gas molecules can diffuse through the air and up your nose where they can be sensed by chemical receptors. This makes cooking food that is very hot smell great.If the object is cold the molecules will have less energy and fewer will become gaseous meaning fewer molecules reach your chemical receptors so the object will be harder to smell. Therefore you can't smell frozen foods very well at all.Some molecules evaporate very easily such as petrol molecules, this means that you can smell them even though it is cold. Many molecules we just arn't very good at sensing, like water and oxygen, I guess we just don't have the correct chemical receptors. Imagine if we could smell how humid the day was for example, it would be a pain really and take a lot of brain power.
How can my feet smell if they don't have a nose?
because your feet sweat and the sweat sits there and releases a gas to make the smell. Thank you for using Answers.com
Can you use the word waft in a sentence?
The smell began to waft into the room.He used the magazine to waft the stench away from him.A waft of cold air suddenly invaded the building.
Does silver smell?
Yes it does. Every thing have a smell but it's not that everyone can smell it. Try smelling it!
Why can you smell the dinner cooking from upstairs?
Because the air (gas) has a low density, it travels upwards.
How does diffusion tell you dinner is cooking from another room?
you can smell it
Why does the smell of dinner cooking gradually disappear after you finish cooking?
All smell are just molecules. The gradually desperse into small particles that your nose adjusts or you just can smell it anymore.
Why the window of the kitchen is open when cooking is in progress?
So the house does not smell of the cooked food after your done cooking.
Does smell affect the speed someone walks?
I think so. If they smell dinner cooking they would walk faster to get it.
Can you give me a sentence with the word distinctly?
Her voice was distinctly different from the others in the room.
What tells you that something is cooking on the stove?
The smell in the kitchen or maybe the rattling of the pot lid.
What would a good blog name be for someone writing about cooking?
"If I were to make a blog about cooking I would make it something catchy like: Something's Sizzling, or I smell something good in the kitchen, my friend suggests Cooking for Two."
How do you use the word residual in a sentence?
After the fire was put out, the firefighters searched the building for any residual smoke to ensure it was completely extinguished.
What does a xtracter fan do in the kitchen?
An extractor fan is used when there is too much vapour and smell in the kitchen while cooking. You switch it on and the fan leads those bad smells outside or eliminates them through a filter.
Water out of the upstairs sinks smell while the other faucets in the house don't?
old pipes in the sink or tub upstairs
What do turnips smell like?
When cooking or cooked, they smell like sewage.
