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To: T-Bird45
If you crack a piece off you can actually smell the gas inside.

huh ?
2 posted on 12/30/2012 9:39:10 AM PST by stylin19a (obama -> Fredo smart)
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To: stylin19a
Huh, yeah, isn't natural gas odorless?
3 posted on 12/30/2012 9:42:11 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: stylin19a

The fact is, methane (natural gas) is almost odorless. The “gas” smell comes from a chemical that is added to the natural gas by distribution facilities, dimethyl sulfide. It is there for your safety, to alert you by smell.

In large quantities, there is almost always some of this chemical occurring in pockets of natural gas, but in much more lower concentration than may be easily detected by a whiff.

The dimethyl sulfide is the result of decomposition of certain organic material such as proteins, which do contain some sulfur. Pure methane would have no sulfur attached to any of its molecules.


5 posted on 12/30/2012 9:49:42 AM PST by alloysteel (Bronco Bama - the cowboy who whooped up and widened the stampede.)
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