VERIFIED CLAIM

Old-book aroma and paper degradation volatiles

Research on historic paper has measured volatile organic compounds released during material degradation and linked those emissions to the characteristic smell of old books.

Scope

Supports the role of paper degradation volatiles; individual books and libraries can differ by materials, storage and environment.

How this was found

Emissions or air measured. What a material, product or place releases into the air was measured, usually without assessing odour.

Source: primary study; material-emission work.

This describes how the source's evidence was produced. What the claim itself covers is its scope, above; how SmellBook checked the claim, where it could, is the next section.

How this claim was checked

SmellBook checked this claim against the source's own words, so that the claim says no more than the source supports. This does not repeat or re-test the study itself.

An editor read the abstract fetched from the named service against every part of the claim. Abstract from Europe PMC (ebi.ac.uk/europepmc).