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IN the past, many chemists have tried to account for the tastes of substances in terms of their chemical structures. Although limited correlations have been found, no rigid, widely applicable generalization has evolved. In view of the poor success in this direction, it is apparent that the relationship is very complex. With the belief that taste, as well as other physiological responses, will be understood eventually in terms of the molecular properties of substances, a deliberate search was begun in this laboratory to identify these properties for the sense of taste.
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LAWRENCE, A., FERGUSON, L. Exploratory Physicochemical Studies on the Sense of Taste. Nature 183, 1469–1471 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831469a0
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