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The State of the Art of Electronic Noses

Three new e-noses use three different methods to sniff out everything from freon to fatty acids

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet; we all know that. But what about a rose smelled by a non-human nose? What would it smell like?

Well, an electronic nose is no Shakespeare, so you'd lose some of the poetry. But a new generation of e-noses is is poised to give a whole new meaning to the sense of smell.

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