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THIS useful little monograph is a section, published in separate form, of Bolley-Engler's “Handbuch der chemischen Technologie.” It is not easy to find a single expression in English which could be regarded as the precise equivalent of the German “Riechstoff” in the sense used by the author. The term as here employed is meant to apply to odorous substances of a pleasant smell and of definite chemical composition—in other words, to chemical individual compounds having a more or less fragrant odour. It is obvious that the word perfume does not apply, because a perfume is generally a mixture of various odorous and non-odorous compounds, this being invariably the case with natural perfumes or fragrant plant oils.
Die Riechstoffe.
By Georg Cohn, of Görlitz. Pp. viii + 219. (Brunswick: Vieweg und Sohn, 1904.) Price 6 marks.
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MELDOLA, R. Die Riechstoffe . Nature 70, 597–598 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070597a0
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