Thread: What smells like gas but probably isn't gas?
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Default What smells like gas but probably isn't gas?
On 07/12/2012 21:04, newshound wrote:


You are right about the smell being added, but it isn't like hydrogen
sulphide at all. I think it might be methyl mercaptan. Something similar
was added to coal gas too (although I agree, coal gas had a sort of
"gas-works" smell, for those old enough to remember gas works!)

Anyone in the house taken to eating asparagus?

Br J Clin Pharmacol. 1989 May; 27(5): 640–641.
PMCID: PMC1379934

Odorous urine in man after asparagus.

C Richer, N Decker, J Belin, J L Imbs, J L Montastruc, and J F Giudicelli

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1379934/

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