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Chemical analysis and origin of the smell of line-dried laundry
Silvia Pugliese, Malte Frydenlund Jespersen, Jakob Boyd Pernov, Justin Shenolikar, Jesper Nygaard, Ole John Nielsen & Matthew S. Johnson
DOI 10.1071/EN19206CLM-LAUNDRY-001 · VERIFIED
Volatiles from line-dried laundry
Cotton towels rinsed in pure water and dried outdoors in sunlight released C5–C9 oxidised compounds, including aldehydes such as pentanal, hexanal, heptanal, octanal and nonanal, which were not observed after drying indoors or outdoors without sunlight.
Detergent-free cotton towels analysed without olfactometry; that sunlit surface photochemistry produces the smell is the authors' proposal.
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Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 349.