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Default What smells like gas but probably isn't gas?

newshound wrote:

On 07/12/2012 20:36, Bill Wright wrote:


Natural gas has the smell added to it artificially. It doesn't smell
like coal gas at all. Which type of gas does yours smell like?
The smell added to natural gas is like rotten eggs.


You are right about the smell being added, but it isn't like hydrogen
sulphide at all. I think it might be methyl mercaptan.


Often described as smelling like rotting cabbage.

Chris
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