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A dead fish has washed up on the beach and is starting to decay. which compound produces the unpleasant odor from the decaying fish?

A dead fish has washed up on the beach and is starting to decay. which compound produces the unpleasant odor from the decaying fish?
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a dead fish has washed up on the beach and is starting to decay. which compound produces the unpleasant odor from the decaying fish?

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A. pentane 1,5-diamine

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User Gurneet Sethi
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Trimethylamine is the chemical that gives decaying fish an unpleasant odour

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