SCIENCE
Today, I read in an organic chemistry textbook that a single drop of 2-methoxy-3-(1-methylethyl)-1,4-diazabenzene(2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine) in a large swimming pool would be more than adequate to give the entire pool the odor of raw potatoes.
And what about this fact: there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth. I'm having trouble with this. Surely this is a close call? If you consider, for one moment, the area of a large beach towel on the surface of a beach, then consider this same area in three dimensions descending to terra firma, to the earth's crust - that's a lot of sand. And then factor in the thousands of miles of coastline that exist around the world (or even the coastline of the British Isles). How can physicists stake (or is it "state") this claim as a certainty? Yet they have.
Today, I read in an organic chemistry textbook that a single drop of 2-methoxy-3-(1-methylethyl)-1,4-diazabenzene(2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine) in a large swimming pool would be more than adequate to give the entire pool the odor of raw potatoes.
And what about this fact: there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth. I'm having trouble with this. Surely this is a close call? If you consider, for one moment, the area of a large beach towel on the surface of a beach, then consider this same area in three dimensions descending to terra firma, to the earth's crust - that's a lot of sand. And then factor in the thousands of miles of coastline that exist around the world (or even the coastline of the British Isles). How can physicists stake (or is it "state") this claim as a certainty? Yet they have.
