Tapped Cinema Air (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Tapped Cinema Air

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Tapped Cinema air: Thomas Kluepfel installs a tube into the ventilation system of a movie theatre in the Mainz Cinestar to through which the exhaust air is directed into a mass spectrometer. This analysed the air during numerous screenings in 30-second intervals. Especially suspense and funny movies leave a unique chemical signature in the air.

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MPI for Chemistry

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