• Contramuffin@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Wording is funky. To clarify:

    The rain smell is due to a compound called geosmin. The bacteria that produces it is Streptomyces.

    When I taught microbiology lab, I would grow a petri dish of Streptomyces during one particular class and have the students smell it