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Chemicals with a strong smell
Hi there
Do you all have any chemicals that you can think of in a laboratory that give off a very strong smell and should be used under the chemhood
I just used Glacial Acetic Acid today and I had no idea how strong the smell was . from now on I am using it under the chemhood
I have created a list so far, if anyone has anything else I can add that would be great:
* Acetic Acid (Glacial Acetic Acid)
* Acetonitrile
* Ammonia
* Beta-mercaptoethanol
* Cadaverine
* Chloroform
* Formaldehyde
* Hydrogen sulfide
* Methanol
* N-Butanol
* Oleum
*Paraformaldehyde
* Sulfuric acid
*Trimethylamine
*Virkon
Thanks!
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aga
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The List you wish for would be extremly long.
Many chemicals have a strong smell.
Google 'perfumes' or 'aromatics' to find many many lists.
Edit:
IMHO GAA ranks as 'mild'.
Conc Ammonia ranks as 'sharp, tolerable'
Skatole ranks as 'rank'
and so on : It's too subjective to be useful.
[Edited on 27-5-2016 by aga]
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Sulfuric acid isn't that bad compared to many others. There's just too many- there's at least ten more with strongly disagreeable odours I can think
of including several amines without thinking too hard about it. Maybe if you narrow down your list you would get somewhere.
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You don't have any phosphines on that list? For shame.
You've also missed aga.
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A shout out for Selenium and Telurium compounds.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2012/05/15/thi...
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Bromine immediately comes to mind. The stench is unbearable.
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Sulphuric acid should be too involatile to smell. If you think it smells you are probably detecting impurities.
As far as I am concerned acetonitrile is practically odourless.
Some people lack some odour receptors so there will always be disagreements about what things smell strongly.
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Wine Lactone is unusually potent, if the Wikipedia article is correct, listing detection thresholds in the picogram/litre range.
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The Mozingo reduction is a rather efficient "teacher" of how thiols actually DO smell that bad.
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362 million molecules at the lower detection end of 0.00001 ng/L
Maths is ace !
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Thiol something. I remember from a video that a couple drops leaked and someone smelled it a mile away.
Edit:didn't read the first post all the way. I agree with glacial acetic acid 
[Edited on 5-30-2016 by 100PercentChemistry]
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Quote: Originally posted by 100PercentChemistry  | Thiol something. I remember from a video that a couple drops leaked and someone smelled it a mile away.
Edit:didn't read the first post all the way. I agree with glacial acetic acid
[Edited on 5-30-2016 by 100PercentChemistry] |
Probably a reference to thioacetone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioacetone
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If the lower figure is correct, then 1000 kg of this chemical would cover the entire surface of the Earth with a detectable odor cloud 200 meters
deep! At least it smells pleasant.
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