The book mentions C4H10S as skunk smell, wikipedia ID's C2H6S as the smell added to natural gas. This group of so-called thiols also includes the smell of shit (CH3SH) and grapefruit (C10H18S). Skatole (C9H9N) is supposed to smell even shittier, yet contains no sulphur.
Thanks for the hint. Now I'm a bigger s*****ad than ever!
-- Joe Legris
Thanks to Sonny Bono and his employers.
They may want to avoid the liability!
And in that clean red state of OHIO ... ??? Or haven't you been reading the newspapers in recent years.
FK
I didn't read the kid stuff. I got chemistry text books. It was a tough slog for a preteen as myself. But the chemicals were easy to buy. I'd go downtown to Eimer and Amend and buy what was needed. I even made myself a small amount of glyceryl trinitrate. It exploded nicely when a small vial of it was crushed by a neatly arranged falling rock. Made a rather nice hole in the ground in that empty lot in the Bronx. FK
Over here a few years back one could buy cans of Thiols from shops under the name "Fart Gas". One squirt would clear a large room. Not sure if its still available.
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By votes, barely. But I know that state(*), it's definitely a weenie state... major income from radar traps, etc. ;-)
(*) I'm often in Columbus on business. Also drive Columbus to Huntington regularly to visit my 88 (on Oct 12) year old father.
...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Occasionally we had to service the 'odourant' injection pump equipment at a natural gas plant. God awful stuff. ISTR it as a 'Mercaptan'?. A single spilled drop of that vile fluid was impossible to wash off and lingered for 2 to 3 days. Oddly the smell got worse as time progressed. Once cleared out a local Marks and Spencer. Didn't know why the crowds were running out of the building but ran outside with them. Sloped off when I figured what had happened. john
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As I recall, mercaptan is the most evil smell of all. It is unbearable, even in small amounts.
A tiny amount is added to natural gas, so that folks can used their built-in gas detector (Their nose).
It seems to me that mercaptan would be a good robber and rapist repellant.
It could be released if robbers broke into unguarded places such as railroad cars and warehouses,
and gals could carry around a spray can of this stuff and spray on themselves if they were in danger of being raped.
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I did that, too, while still in high school. In particular, to the science library (floor 5) at Portland State University. I partly did that in order to make sure I could get important details, such as melt and flash points, and anticipate dangers. One of those details is why I started using sulfuric acid as a bath -- to ensure even heating and avoid 'hot spots' that might cause an event I'd rather avoid. Got that out of a book there.
But my earliest interest didn't start at the university library. It started from a middle school library book.
I was lucky in my last year of high school, in some ways. We had 7 students in the advanced senior science class and did some wonderful projects. Including making a 'crystal' out of styrofoam balls wrapped with foil and sticks, using a klystron to illuminate it, and watt meters to record values at fixed positions. I wanted to make, and was allowed to make, mercury fulminate and nitroglycerin. The fulminate was the most fun, being a really nifty exothermic reaction and not so much detailed work to do. But one time after purifying it with glacial acetic acid and recrystalizing, I also left the filter paper to dry over the weekend and that led to a friend (working as the lab assistant on Monday morning) getting surprised a lot when he tried to clean up the table and touched the glass rod in the beaker on top of the filter paper (I had tried to make it look neat enough that he wouldn't bother it.)
Jon
Government brain washed !
1) Communities are built on tax dollars . 2) Large cities are tax dollars plus govt jobs plus ,plus .If we had no govt , we'd succeed at a very high rate . That "rate" would force 250 million so callled skilled workers out of the US . Now where is your cheap houses ? Your cheap "communities" all in weeks ! Those cheap houses torn down by the rich , replaced with forest ...
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Government brain washed !
1) Communities are built on tax dollars . 2) Large cities are tax dollars plus govt jobs plus ,plus .If we had no govt , we'd succeed at a very high rate . That "rate" would force 250 million so callled skilled workers out of the US . Now where is your cheap houses ? Your cheap "communities" all in weeks ! Those cheap houses torn down by the rich , replaced with forest ...
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No universities , no schools , no hospitals , doctors . no police , no plumbers , no electricians , No laws , no marriage , no divorce , no complaints .....
Rich , successful people DONT need any of it ...
natural selection...............
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More from Wikipedia:
- Mercaptan is the traditonal name for thiol
- Thiols bind strongly to skin proteins
-- Joe Legris
I know what that stuff smells like. Spraying yourself with it or getting raped would be one tough decision to face.
robert
This is fantastic!!!
i loved that book, too. still on my bookshelf.
we mulled glucose and KNO3 together to dispense with the heating aspect. it could make quite respectable rocket fuel putty, but we had a hard time scaling it up. we used to clean out spent model rocket engines and fill them to the brim. never could find any D or greater size engines to scale up to. kid stuff.
worked with KCLO4 too, although, it would start smoking on warm days. fortunately, it didn't need to last long. ; )
i had bags of S put away for the day that I could find a commensurate amount of Zn powder...
"anarchist's cookbook" there's cool chemistry and creepy chemistry. this was way creepy.
I've saved it on every computer I own. I'm never going to lose it again!
Why wouldn't she spray it on the perp?
Thanks, Rich
Fantastic book, thanks very much. I had never seen it before.
When I was at high school in the early 60's I do recall another excellent DIY book that all us amateur chemists used to pore over. I have no idea of the title now, but IIRC it had a black cover and was about 1", or a little more, thick. It had about 30+ fascinating experiments in it, and one I recall was making nylon or a similar plastic.
Any idea what it may have been?
Barry Lennox
That sounds like the book I mentioned earlier in the thread that I can't remember the name of. If it is the one that includes an experiment with iodine crystals for making lots of colored smoke, it may be the one.
Jon
"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
What a small world. You go right by my neighborhood. I am just south of Portsmouth Ohio, on the Kentucky side.
Thing about the cookbook is that there are some useful things and things that are almost suicidal. The catch is that if you know enough to know which is which you don't need the book.
-- Dirk http://www.onetribe.me.uk/wordpress - The UK\'s only occult talk show Presented by Dirk Bruere and Marc Power on ResonanceFM
How about that! I usually stop at Bob Evans Restaurant in Portsmouth ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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