What an unusual word "petricor"! How rare it is! You can hardly hear it when you go for a walk in sunny weather. Anyway, in everyday life it is used extremely rarely. And the person who uses it in his speech is most likely a great scholar and has a rich vocabulary. What does the petricor mean?
Origin of the word
Let's look at the origin of the concept of "petricor". This little-known word was formed from two Greek. Petra, which in Greek means “stone” + ichor, is the fluid flowing in the veins of the heroes of Greek mythology.
In translation, petricor is a pleasant smell after rain or the smell of the rain itself. This is the scent of freshness that many people like. When the rain has passed, the dust is clinging to the ground and it seems as if breathing becomes easier. Even the air itself feels cleaner.
What does the aroma of rain consist of?
You can often hear what a pleasant lasting fragrance is the “handiwork” of ozone. However, studies by scientists have shown that petricor is composed of several odors that together give such a feeling of freshness.
First of all, these are oils released from trees, which during rain, through a physical process such as diffusion, spread between hydrogen molecules in the air.
The second thing that is characteristic of petricor is bacteria living in soil called actinomycetes. They produce chemicals that are raindrops striking the ground, so to speak, knocked out into the wild.
And, of course, the third is ozone itself. Probably the easiest to grasp component. Thanks to the Austrian scientists who once long ago began to study the smells of damp earth and the weather!
But it is important to know not only the meaning of new words, but also to pronounce them correctly. This will help to understand the dictionaries. According to them, in the word petricor, emphasis on the rules should be pronounced, highlighting the last syllable, since this concept came to Russian from a foreign language.
"Lemniskata Petricor"
The word "petricor" is not only a smell after rain. This is also one of the components of the name of the modern group with the unusual name “Lemniscata Petricor”. A beautiful name makes you imagine a magical girl singing in the forest after a thunderstorm that has just passed. But actually this is a duet of two young people: Svetlana Shumiliver and her partner Andrei. They met at the institute and somehow unexpectedly decided to do something together.
So a group with a bewitching name was born. The highlight of this duet is that the soloist sings songs on behalf of a man and copes with it well. Andrei, in turn, is responsible for the content of the songs. The music group is just starting to gain popularity. Their page on the VKontakte social network is small in number. Only two and a half thousand people share their music. But they began to exist relatively recently. The charming appearance of the soloist and a unique idea with singing songs on a man’s behalf can become the key to the popularity of the collaboration of these young talents. The first album "Lemniscati Petricor" came out with good success. Let's hope that the continuation of this story will not disappoint fans.