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How does stainless steel make bad odors disappear?

  • I have observed that silverware (made from stainless steel) doesn't seem to absorb food flavors and odors - For example, if you eat garlic with a stainless steel spoon the spoon will have no residual garlic odor. Furthermore - if your hands have a garlic odor and your rub them with a stainless steel spoon, the odor will disappear. Are there any scientific explanation for this?

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    Actually our clothes, hands or other objects absorb the liquids and the liquids remain on them for sometime. So they smell. Stainless steel doesn't absorb things and residual of those liquids will be very less. So they don't have odour.

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According to this article, the metal binds the sulfur atoms in the garlic more efficiently than your fingers do, removing them and the source of the smell. It doesn't give the chemical equations, though. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/eliminating-garlic-smell_n_1341413.html

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