Re: [CH] plants coming indoors...
Dave Drum (dirty_dave@chillicooks.org)
Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:26:55 -0500
jim@wildpepper.com wrote:
> Re: *Mercaptans contain sulfur. That’s what makes them smell. The kind
> used blends well with natural gas and, in a gaseous state, has much
> the same properties as natural gas, so it will also rise and dissipate
> with natural gas.
> Remember *you* said this: Just my morning to be a pedantic
> nit-picker. :-P
> Back at you :-)
> Methyl mercaptan has a vapor density of well over 6.0. It won't rise
> with the gas but instead percipitate out. It is also highly toxic.
> It's use with natural gas comes from the fact that the human nose can
> detect mercaptans down to the ppb- as in billion, not ppm (million).
> There is little else, if anything, that humans can detect in lower
> quantities... unless it's chile peppers to the weak ;-)
I don't know what specific mercaptan is used. None of the sites I
checked went beyond "mercaptan". What I posted was a synopsis of
information from several sites.
> I believe skunk oil is in the same family as well. Can't says as I
> would ever mistake the heavenly aroma of garlic for mercaptan :-)
That one I do know - butyl mercaptan.
> Should have seen the mess we had around here when the gas company, as
> part of an education program, but a 'scratch & sniff' dot of mercatpan
> on the gas bills one month. It was supposed to show the public what a
> gas leak smells like. Yeeessshhhh!!! We ran 'gas leaks' and 'gas odor'
> calls non-stop for DAYS!
I can believe it. I assume that Sparky the Fire Dog bit a big chunk
out of their promotional department's collective arse and that they
won't repeat that soon. Bv)=
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