VERIFIEDPRIMARY
Material Degradomics: On the Smell of Old Books
Matija Strlič et al.
DOI 10.1021/ac9016049CLM-OLDBOOK-002 · VERIFIED
Known volatile degradation products of paper
Headspace analysis of degrading historic paper found acetic acid and furfural, known volatile paper degradation products, and put forward lipid peroxidation products among other compounds of potential interest.
Paper samples after a 24-hour pre-degradation in the laboratory; the study does not attribute the smell of old books to any single compound.
The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the abstract fetched from the named service, and an editor read the full abstract against every part of the claim. Abstract from Europe PMC (ebi.ac.uk/europepmc).
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CANONICAL PROFILES2
MOLECULES THIS CLAIM NAMES2
- acetic acid · Reported volatile · the claim says “known volatile paper degradation products”
- furfural · Reported volatile · the claim says “known volatile paper degradation products”
Each molecule page shows the other entries whose evidence names it. A molecule named here is not the whole smell.
SUPPORTING SOURCES1
Permanent identifier smellbook:claim:known-volatile-degradation-products-of-paper · Graph record (JSON)
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-06 · sha256 5c7fe650477f.