CONNECTIONS: PARTICLES, SENSORY OFFENDING FILTERS, THE 'SINK' EFFECT AND NASAL PUNGENCY THRESHOLDS

摘要

Outdoor and indoor environments are profitably viewed as highly connected parts of a whole. Pull a thread outdoors and one or more threads moves indoors; indoor threads can, in turn, affect still other outdoor threads. Physical and chemical phenomena connect both settings. As an example of such connections, this paper examines different processes that correlate with an organic compound's saturation vapor pressure. This includes equilibrium partitioning to outdoor particles and indoor surfaces, as well as activation of trigeminal nerve receptors.