• athos77@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Hunh. The Sagittarius B2 interstellar cloud:

    is composed of various kinds of complex molecules, of particular interest: alcohol. The cloud contains ethanol, vinyl alcohol, and methanol. […] An ester, ethyl formate, […] is also responsible for the flavour of raspberries, leading some articles on Sagittarius B2 to postulate the cloud as smelling of ‘raspberry rum’. Large quantities of butyronitrile (propyl cyanide) and other alkyl cyanides have also been detected as being present in the cloud.

    Cool stuff.