Harlandale Independent School District Superintendent Rey Madrigal addresses the crowd during a ribbon cutting ceremony held for Bexar County's first school-based health center at Collier Elementary School, ...
Charcoal is known to effectively absorb and trap odors, but you will want to control the potential mess it can make. Place charcoal in a container with several holes poked in it, and leave it in an area that smells bad. Throw the entire assembly away when the scent is gone.
When you detect a smell and sniff at it, you are increasing the number of scent molecules that will enter your nasal cavity and flow by the olfactory receptor cells on the roof of the nasal cavity, bathing them in sensory stimuli. The olfactory nerve will then send the stimuli to the olfactory center in the brain. This is a very direct route from the nose to the brain which helps us react quickly to the different smells that we detect. The brain will identify the smell and give a signal how to respond. Some responses are subconscious,