Castor and Pollux

Similarly, disease resistant hybrids such as Castor and Pollux, obtained by crossing Vitis vinifera and native American vines, are often characterized by a strawberry odor resulting from the presence of a few nanograms of 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-2,3-dihydro-3-fmanone (fmaneol) (Rapp, 1993). 

To see the truth of this electrons in transit view we need to stand back a little. You might already have noticed the first clue oxidation never occurs without reduction, and vice versa. Oxidation and reduction are the Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Castor and Pollux, of chemistry. There is never one without the other. For instance, when iron ore is reduced by carbon monoxide in a blast furnace, the carbon monoxide is oxidized to carbon dioxide. Because oxidation is always accompanied by reduction chemists take the view that it is inappropriate to speak of an oxidation reaction alone or of a reduction reaction alone. Instead, they think of them jointly as a reduction-oxida-... 

From the wine aromas of Pollux, Castor, and Riesling grapes, Rapp et al. and Schreier and Paroschy have isolated an undesirable strawberry aroma by GC-MS (80V13, 81MI112). This lactone was characterized as 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-2,3-dihydro-3-furanone 8 ("furaneol") having an odor threshold of 50-100 ppb. 

The two pillars of Gemini (see the glyph in Figure 6-1) represent the mythological twins Castor, the human son of a man, and Pollux, the immortal son of Zeus, king of the gods. They also symbolize the two sides of your doublesided nature. 

Let them worship both those who have always been considered gods of heaven and those whose deeds have placed them in heaven Hercules, Liber, Aesculapius, Castor, Pollux, Quirinus. Furthermore, as to those praiseworthy qualities on account of which ascent into heaven is granted to humans - Intelligence, Virtue, Piety, Faith - let there be sanctuaries for them, but none for vices." ... 

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