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Rossen, J (2018). Just Smelling Coffee Can Give You A Brain Boost . Mental Floss. Retrieved and adapted from https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/551479/just-smelling-coffee-can-give-you-brain-boost In the article “Just Smelling Coffee Can Give You A Brain Boost.”, Rossen (2018) discusses the benefits and effects on smelling coffee. The benefits for the aroma of coffee is that the “anti-inflammatory properties”   may prolong life expentency and lower the risk of ‘type-2’ diabetes. In the area of effect, Rossen mentioned that the aroma of coffee might increase one productivity. According to Spear (2018), a study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology discuss the effects on smelling coffee. In the study, two groups of students were asked to take a “Graduate Management Apitutde Test (GMAT).” These students were separated into two different environment rooms. The first group of students were in the room filled with the aroma of coffee while the latter was in a ro...

Technical Report Draft #1

Background According to the website from Kitchn (Brones, 2015) siphon coffee maker brews a very clean and fragrance tasting coffee. This method was found earlier in the 1830s by “Loeff of Berlin” and soon it became popular due to a French woman named “Marie Fanny Ameine” Massot of Lyons, who “designed the first commercially successful vacuum coffee brewer” (Brones, 2015, para 2). The design featured “two glass balloons” held by a frame, which is currently recognized as the siphon coffee maker. The two “glass balloons” are known as the upper chamber and lower chamber. By heating the lower chamber, the vapor pressure forces the water to rise into the upper chamber. Once it reaches the upper chamber, the water will mix with the coffee grounds. When the heating source is turned off, the loss in vapour pressure will cause the mixture to flow down into the lower chamber through a filter attached to the bottom of the upper chamber. As a result, the bottom chamber will be filled with b...