Can you actually smell metal?

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If metal has no odor and you can't smell it, then what are we smelling? It turns out that it's mostly a chemical called 1-octen-3-one, which is generated when your skin oils react with metal that you've touched. I thought this was really interesting, and I decided to try making pure 1-octen-3-one myself and to see what it smelled like.

Procedure:
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Background info:
• https://www.nature.com/news/2006/0610...
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oct-1-e...

1-octen-3-ol:
• https://shop.perfumersapprentice.com/...

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