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This is Scientific American Sixty Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute?
You've probably noticed that synthetic1 t-shirts stink2 more after a work-out, compared to cotton. But hey, it's not the fabric's fault, it's the microbes that hang out on synthetics3 that creates that characteristic stench. That's according to a study in the journal applied4 in environmental microbiology. Twenty-six volunteers, half men, half women worked out on spinning bikes for an hour and they did so outfitted5 with t-shirts of cotton, polyester, or a cotton synthetic blend. Then researchers stuffed the sweaty shirts into plastic bags. the next day, a trained panel sniffed6 them, reading their funk, unlucky job, because yes, the polyester shirts were indeed more musty, sour and ammonia like than the cotton. DNA7 analysis reviewed that microbe coccus bacteria were to blame.they aren't actually all that common in the armpit itself, and they don't flock to cotton. But researchers say they thrive on the open-air latus of synthetic fibers8, where they sit chomping9 on the long-chained fatty acids in our sweat, turning them into shorter stinkier molecules10. These findings might just explain one of the most vexing11 questions of adolescence12: why do your stinky shirts smell so unpleasantly different, from the body odour in the armpit themselves. could be because your favorite shirt has a microbe bio of its own.
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1 synthetic | |
adj.合成的,人工的;综合的;n.人工制品 | |
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2 stink | |
vi.发出恶臭;糟透,招人厌恶;n.恶臭 | |
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3 synthetics | |
n.化学合成物 | |
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adj.应用的;v.应用,适用 | |
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5 outfitted | |
v.装备,配置设备,供给服装( outfit的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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6 sniffed | |
v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的过去式和过去分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说 | |
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7 DNA | |
(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸 | |
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8 fibers | |
光纤( fiber的名词复数 ); (织物的)质地; 纤维,纤维物质 | |
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9 chomping | |
v.切齿,格格地咬牙,咬响牙齿( chomp的现在分词 ) | |
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10 molecules | |
分子( molecule的名词复数 ) | |
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11 vexing | |
adj.使人烦恼的,使人恼火的v.使烦恼( vex的现在分词 );使苦恼;使生气;详细讨论 | |
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12 adolescence | |
n.青春期,青少年 | |
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