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How do we know?

Posted by Jivko on 28 Jan 2013 at 12:45 GMT

Fascinating work. I am outside of the olfactory field but I have been reading into it as a general interest. How the fact that some animas can smell (react to) deuterated compounds really proves the vibration theory? I mean, does it exclude the possibility that there is some other mechanism, such as - for the sake of the argument - conformational change or affinity change?

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RE: How do we know?

lucaturin replied to Jivko on 28 Jan 2013 at 13:51 GMT

have you read the paper ?

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