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the molecular reason your fruit smells like fruit and not regret
means An ester is an organic compound formed when an acid reacts with an alcohol, often carrying the bright, fruity smells found in flowers and ripe fruit.
from Coined in German as 'Ester' in the 19th century by chemist Leopold Gmelin, who compressed 'Essigäther' — 'acetic ether,' the old name for ethyl acetate — into a single tidy syllable. 'Essig' means vinegar, so the word still carries a faint whiff of its sour parentage even while it perfumes your strawberries.
- smell squad
- banana, pineapple, apple aromas are all esters
- fatty backbone
- fats and oils are giant ester molecules
- named 1848
- German chemist coined it from essigäther
- plastic too
- polyester is just esters linked in chains
easter island moai — nearly 900 monumental stone statues carved by polynesian settlers between 1100-1500 ce
easter bombing 1972 — north vietnamese offensive that killed over 45,000 people during the vietnam war
easter island — rapa nui in the south pacific, located 2,200 miles off the coast of chile