Cutting onions can be a crying experience
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If you are crying when cutting onions, physicists have found a possible solution, but probable professional chefs will not like them.
When the onions are cut, they spray a mixture of compounds rich in azuts in the air, one of which is the propanetial oxide, a chemist that triggers the nerves in the eye responsible for producing tears.
Sunghwan Jung at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and his colleagues used a high -speed camera for detail analysis the spray produced when …
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