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How does the smell of dinner reach your nose two rooms away?

Someone is cooking dinner in the kitchen and you are upstairs behind a shut door. A few minutes later your nose picks it up: bacon, or garlic, or warm toast. Nobody wafted it towards you, and the air in between looks perfectly still. So how did the smell travel all that way to find your nose?

Sausages sizzling and browning in a frying pan.
Photo: Rene Ehrhardt · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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