| ▲ | snitty 7 hours ago |
| In this case aromatic means a ring of atoms where there is electron sharing among all the members of the ring. They're called aromatic rings because before they understood the structure, they grouped them by their behavior, and the aromatics contain a lot of volatile organics like benzene, toluene, phenol, which have strong odors. |
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| ▲ | worthless-trash 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I like your explanation without condescension. Respect. |
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| ▲ | moffkalast 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| So it's not volatile enough to give off a scent? |
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| ▲ | jaggederest 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Massive molecule with a lithium salt on every silicon atom. It's not going to have basically any vapor pressure and thus effectively no aroma unless there are breakdown products | |
| ▲ | jfengel 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Even if it were volatile, you likely wouldn't be able to smell it. The olfactory sense is complicated and weird, and targeted at organic chemistry. You can smell a few inorganic things (notably, elemental osmium, whose name literally means "smell" because that's so unusual), but your receptors are unlikely to trigger for anything that far removed. | | |
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