植物通过空气输送的是一种名为挥发性有机化合物（简称VOCs）的化学混合物。
What the plants pump through the air is a mixture of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds, VOCs for short.
这些燃烧过程同样释放化学物质如甲烷、氮氧化合物、挥发性的有机化合物和一氧化碳在光照下反应形成臭氧。
These same processes also release chemicals that combine in sunlight to form ozone: methane, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, and carbon monoxide.
化学家们在实验室合成有机化合物的时候，常常会得到一堆分子：一半右旋，一半左旋。
When chemists synthesize organic compounds in the lab, they often wind up with a mix of molecules: half are right-handed, and half are left.
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