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Is It Possible To Outrun Your Own Fart?

We've learned about the speed of sound and the speed of light, but what about the speed of smell? More specifically, is it possible to outrun a smell? In the video above, the brilliant folks of AsapScience look into this important matter, calculating whether or not it's possible to crop dust a room without getting a whiff of your own poison.  Smells travel through diffusion, a process in which particles move from an area of high concentration to low concentration, until reaching a state of equilibrium.

 

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