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However, I managed to get a hold of a Borane eventually, and here is the beast.
無論如何，我最終得到了一些硼烷，這就是那個“怪物”。
And it really does have the same -- if you calculate, if you measure the vibrational frequencies, they are the same as S-H.
結(jié)果和我預(yù)期的一樣--如果你計算，如果你計算振動頻率，它的和S-H的一樣。
Now, does it smell of sulfur?
現(xiàn)在，來看看它聞起來像不像硫？
Well, if you go back in the literature, there's a man who knew more about Boranes than anyone alive then or since, Alfred Stock, he synthesized all of them.
如果你去查文獻，會發(fā)現(xiàn)有一個人比歷史上任何人都更了解硼烷，阿爾弗雷德·斯托克，他用人工的方法合成過所有的硼烷類物質(zhì)。
And in an enormous 40-page paper in German he says, at one point -- my wife is German and she translated it for me -- and at one point he says,
在他用德語寫成的長達40頁的論文中，他曾說，我太太是德國人她為我翻譯了一下，他曾說，
"ganz widerlich Geruch," an "absolutely repulsive smell," which is good.
“ganz widerlich Geruch”意思就是“絕對令人厭惡的味道”，這很好。
Reminiscent of hydrogen sulfide.
讓人想起硫化氫。
So this fact that Boranes smell of sulfur had been known since 1910, and utterly forgotten until 1997, 1998.
硼烷聞起來像硫這一事實，自從1910年人們就知道了，但是卻全然被大家遺忘了直到1997年、1998年。
Now, the slight fly in the ointment is this: that if we smell molecular vibrations, we must have a spectroscope in our nose.
現(xiàn)在唯一的不足就是如果我們聞到的是分子的震動，我們的鼻子里一定要有一個分光鏡才行。
Now, this is a spectroscope, OK, on my laboratory bench.
這是一個分光鏡，在我實驗室的椅子上。
And it's fair to say that if you look up somebody's nose, you're unlikely to see anything resembling this.
可以這么說如果你觀察一個人的鼻子內(nèi)部，你不會看到任何類似這個的東西。
And this is the main objection to the theory.
這是反對這個理論的主要觀點。
