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[NAFEX] The Smell of Healthy Soil - Why after rain

From: BekeeprTop@aol.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] The Smell of Healthy Soil - Why after rain
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:52:17 EST

http://transectpoints.blogspot.com/2007/02/test.html

Suggest reading the whole article above at its original location, brief 
extract:

" The human nose is exquisitely sensitive to geosmin, able to detect it at 
concentrations down to 10 parts per trillion. Since the bacteria thrives in 
moist soil but releases the spores once the soil dries out, the smell is most 
acute after a rain that follows a dry spell . . . "



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[NAFEX] The Smell of Healthy Soil - Why after rain, BekeeprTop, 02/23/2007