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ThinkGeek :: Onion Goggles

Onions have a defense mechanism. No, they don�t have impenetrable steel armor, or spikes, or adamantium skeletons. They rely, instead, on chemical weaponry. Now, before you go calling the Department of Homeland Security on your green-grocer, hear me out. Inside the cell walls of a typical onion are a collection of enzymes called `allinase` and `prensco.` Normally separated, once you start to cut an onion, those walls breakdown, and those enzymes create 1--propenylsulphenic acid, which further break down into propanethial S-oxide gas.

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