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IN his recent article on this subject J. E. Amoore1 ascribes the odours of substances to the size and shape of their molecules: the olfactory epithelium, he suggests, contains receptor sites of definite shapes and dimensions, and a substance with a molecule of configuration appropriate to fit into one of these sites will have one of the primary odours.
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FULLMAN, B. Stereochemical Theory of Olfaction. Nature 199, 912 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199912a0
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