Mark: Very good point!
As a grad student (long, long, ago in a distant...) I used to work with various frozen gases, including hydrogen sulfide. It turns out to be more dangerous/poisonous than hydrogen cyanide. However, the nose detects the sulfide at much lower levels. The problem is that if the smell is strong and soon goes away, either it has gone away or it is still there, your nose has lost sensitivity to it and you will soon "go away." Larry, still alive to talk about it. > Hi Chris, > > True, but the nose can suffer olfactory fatigue with sulfur compounds such > as hydrogen sulfide (after a few minutes you can't smell it anymore > although > it's still there - very dangerous, since the warning property of odor > disappears). > > Mark > > Mark Grossman > Briarcliff Manor, NY > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Spratt" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:40 PM > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] sulphurous smell of meteorites > (wasTemperature > of meteorites) > > >> Actually I use my nose. Cheaper and always with me . >> >> Chris Spratt >> Victoria, BC >> (Via my iPhone) >> ______________________________________________ >> Visit the Archives at >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
