Over in the Beard Products Discussion section, I started a thread asking for help with a perceptual problem that makes it seem to me that I'm using up my beard balm much faster in the last couple of months than ever before. Gato offered some excellent volumetric analysis to explain how perception could be distorted. That all seemed well and good, but I was still puzzled. This isn't really a Beard Product question anymore, so I moved the mystery back over here to my journey thread.

Readers in that thread saw that I asked LEGO-Sheriff Triibeard for help, and he took some specimens from the traces of beard balm left in two of my recently emptied tins.

He very methodically prepared the specimens for analysis and fired up the GC-210 gas chromatograph.

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Gas chromatography measures the chemical components present within a sample by vaporizing them and measuring how long it takes for the component vapors to move through a chamber of known length based on their molecular weight. We waited patiently for the results...

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He studied the spikes in the data display with what seemed to be an insightful nod and a quiet "um HMM!", but he didn't tell me anything before he rushed off with the printout muttering something about "Oregon" or "Orchids." I couldn't hear him well enough to be sure.

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I'll have to wait to know what he gets from the data.

Triibeard's Thirty-NINE years of being bearded    (The recent journey from a short- to a long-beard)
Introducing LEGO-Sheriff Triibeard     (The origin story for our polymeric polychromatic hero)
Sheriff Triibeard and The Case of the Missing Beard Balm   (In search of that scoundrel RiffRaff)
Sheriff Triibeard and the Hermit Hoarder    (Consequences of acquisitiveness)

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