The Strange Physics Behind the Smell of Rubber Bands

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If you've spent any time trying to explode a pumpkin with rubber bands you know that they have a distinct smell to them when stretched, and you have physics to thank for that. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stretch-it-how-does-temperature-affect-a-rubber-band/ http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/HomeExpts/rubberband.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236241/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00020/full https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bdc0/ebfa064d6062325e7a2728ff58b48c848bf4.pdf http://depts.washington.edu/chem/facilserv/lecturedemo/EntropyofRubber-UWDept.ofChemistry.html http://nile.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/Publications/papers/Brzinski-2015-RubberStretch.pdf https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08990229870925?journalCode=ismr20 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/app.39356 http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Thermal_touch
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