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Vibration theory of olfaction
The Vibration theory of smell is that the quality of a particular odour arises from olfactory receptors' responding to frequencies of vibrations of odour molecules in the infrared range. The theory is opposed to the more widely accepted shape theory of olfaction in which the shape of odorant molecules allow them to fit into membrane proteins in the olfactory receptors.
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