Tina Fry, Author at New ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Science news and science articles from New ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Fri, 10 Sep 1993 23:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 242057827 Letters: More pong /article/1830053-letters-more-pong-2/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_content=currents&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=NSNS Fri, 10 Sep 1993 23:00:00 +0000 http://mg13918906.100 When my children were small, I frequently had occasion to be grateful
for the almost miraculous power of bicarbonate of soda to remove the smell
of vomit from clothes, carpets etc. A brief experiment on an odiferous book
shows that dry bicarb sprinkled between the pages, and left there for a
few days diminishes the smell to a great extent. (I shall now experiment
with a second dose).

Incidentally, can anyone please explain the chemical mechanism by which
bicarb works to remove smells?

Tina Fry Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear

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