No I am suggesting that the snow I melted smelled like burnt plastic. The Ice I melted out of my frig didn't
I figured the explanation was something simple like the snow absorbed residue from car exhaust maybe and that accounts for the smell.
Of course Ice and snow are vastly different in structure so its not a real test. I looked for some ICE from outside but there is none I can get easily and its fricking cold out there right now.
Now a couple freepers suggested that the residue from combustion is the cause of the smell.
I would've thought the ice would smell the same BUT its from my frig not outside.
I will see if I can get some ice that formed outside tomorrow in the day time and try again.
I live five miles South of the Gary/South Chicago Steel Mills.
We also have dozens of smaller industrial facilities and chemical plants.
We have rivers here that sometimes catch on fire. So the notion of snow that leaves a chemical residue is not a real shocker.
Mad Dawgg, you mentioned in an earlier post that you were told as a child that the white stuff tht falls from the sky is snow. Well when I was a child (over 60 years ago) I was told (rather sternly) not to try to eat that stuff.
Folks around here knew back then that it was full of crap. I can remember seeing snow that was laced with black flecks without having to take a butane lighter to it.
By the way, nobody around here has a rain barrel either.
I’m sorry if I had a snarky tone. I was inundated with people all day claiming that the Bilderburgers and George Bush and Prince Philip are in cahoots with Kim Jong Whosis to drop poisoned plastic on us in order to make us more obedient to the aliens when they land. I just became a little impatient. And that was just so frustrating, because everyone with any sense knows it’s the Trilateral Commission working with Hitler’s grandson and the Hugo Chavez, because he didn’t really die.