I was looking for a cool story that relates to Chemistry, and I do believe I found something! I knew that books tend to spell the older the get, but I never knew why. Thanks to this article in The Naked Scientists called 'Smell Test for Old Books.' As it turns out, the volatile organic compounds that paper releases builds up like acids which increase as the paper gets older and older.
Not only did I find out why older books give off a certain smell, I also found a website that is filled with fun articles!
To read this article in full, here is the URL : http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/news/news/1851/
To get to The Naked Scientist main page, here is the URL:http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/news/
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