Can smell travel through water?

Question

Just wondering if it can, when u fart underwater u can smell it but thats only because it comes up in bubbles of gas, but can a smell pass through water/liquid by itself?
ie. through a solid wall of water like a waterfall or something

Answer 1

ever heard of sharks smelling out blood?
that too in the salty sea?
u just need good enough nose

Answer 2

Sharks can detect blood two miles away
Human nose is not properly design to smell underwater but sea animals and fishes can smell very far.
Dogs do not smell the same in water as they do in land

Smell travel a lot faster in water than in air

Answer 3

Of course it can travel through water, but that doesn't mean a person on the other side of the waterfall, for example, would smell your fart.

Answer 4

Yes, sharks can smell blood up to a mile away.
However, I don't think humans can smell underwater. If you try to smell your fart underwater, you'll probably get a nose full of water before you get a nose full of ***.

Answer 5

Yes. Smell is just the detection of chemicals in the air using the cells in your nasal passage. Basically you're tasting the air with your nose. If you had a sensitive enough tongue, you might taste the fart in the water.

Answer 6

short answer, no. Longer answer, maybe. in case you have a kit equipment (no blower unit interior the homestead), you have have been given a leak on your return duct. The air return is below unfavourable rigidity, so it ought to suck a undesirable scent into the equipment. If yours is a incredibly new and nicely-sealed homestead, you're transforming into a powered potential restoration clean air exchanger. those save the homestead from getting stuffy with out air exchanges. it is a gadget that possibilities up clean air from outdoors and strikes it interior, with a bit of luck by way of a clear out. yet a clear out won't end a scent, and there you're.

Answer 7

smell is molecules in air or water you just need the correct equipment to sense it under water.like creatures of the deep have.Jacques custos or whatever is name is.was renowned the world over for getting the whiff of a wet suit fart all the way across the Atlantic

Answer 8

no, smell only travels through air. It is the intermolecular space between air molecules that result in the spreading of smell. Water has less intermolecular space and therefore cannot let smell travel through it.

Answer 9

YES. But, you can't smell CO2!! Be careful with car emissions, and burning furnaces in the house. Get a CO2 detector when they are on. Especially if you have a coal furnace, or a propane heater.

Answer 10

Yes.

And sometimes you can taste it in the water you drink.
It works the same way with fishing with real bait. The fish can smell the bait and come to investigate before biting into it.