Questions tagged [taste]
Questions related to the crude analysis of a compound by identifying its taste.
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Do all salts taste salty?
Recently, I am learning the production of soluble and insoluble salts. My friend and I have done this experiment at the school lab.
We wanted to taste them to see whether they are salty are not. The ...
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How do we know a nerve agent is tasteless?
According to the BBC, the nerve agent sarin is a tasteless liquid. How do we know that this liquid has no taste, given that anyone to have (not) tasted it in any meaningful quantity presumably died ...
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Do L-sugars (enantiomers of natural sugars) have a sweet taste?
I'm wondering about how L-sugars taste. They are obviously not digestible by humans, but what do they taste like? If they are sweet, too, why isn't sucrose with the unnatural chirality used as a zero-...
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Measuring sweetness
According to my textbook, sucralose is about 500 times sweeter than sucrose. How is this measured? Does one have to use blind taste tests, or is there a quantitative chemical way of measuring ...
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What defines an element's taste?
A useful post by @Martin indicated that probably the naming of Sweetwater town is because of the sweet tasting lead compounds in it's water.
Then my question arose. I know that the taste of any ...
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Silver and milk (or milk products)
In the title I am refering to silver spoons, which, when used to consume milk products (like yogurt), get a weird taste. It could be described as umami/meaty, a little bit like onions. I came to the ...
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Why does meltwater taste different? [duplicate]
I've noticed that water obtained from melting ice cubes (by keeping them in the open) tastes different from water cooled to the same temperature.
Furthermore, the taste goes away if you keep it in ...
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What chemicals help define "taste"?
As we all know that there are 5 tastes : sweet, sour, bitter, umami, salty.
So what chemicals are there that help form these tastes, in other words how do our tastebuds experience these tastes?
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Does oxygenating tap water remove the tap water flavor?
I know flavor is subjective and not exactly quantifiable, but I think there's merit to this question.
We've all experienced that tap water often tastes a lot worse than bottled water or filtered ...
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