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spectroscopic methods For instance, roasted coffee is found to contain as many as 100 or more volatiles which together give the characteristic pleasant aroma of coffee
Unlike smell taste is not given 'out' by matter The object itself has to come in intimate contact with the sense-organs of taste As in the case of other qualities there are infinite varieties of taste which can be grouped together to form five categories The taste of any object is the resultant of all different tastes possessed by its composing elements
III CLASSIFICATION We have already said that according to Jains, material objects are composed of elementary particles called paramánus There are infinite types of matter and because they are capable of infinite - mutations the entire material universe is infinitely infinite The fundamental reason for the infinite variety is the infinite multiplicity of the four innate qualities, colour etc, of matter and the difference in the number of paramānus
According to the modern science also, there are infinite varieties of organic and inorganic compounds constituted by various combinations of about 100 different kinds of chemical elements The atoms of the elements are different from one another because of the difference in the number of their constituting elementary particles viz. protons and neutrons in the nucleus of the atom and the electrons orbitting round - The infinite variety, however, can be grouped together from various aspects to form a few classes or types Thus the entire material universe can be divided into two or three types eg,
