VSEPR_VOID
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Are there any SM Users in Hawaii?
If there are any SM members who live in Hawaii will you use the recent eruption from Kilauea to collect geologic samples, in particular sulfur?
  
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roXefeller
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Haha just visited there, different island of course. Anyway, a rogue scientist might have to sneak around the national guard. They won't kindly
allow someone that close to a fissure.
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Yes there is but I can't remember the username.
Coincidentally, he posted a thread on a topic that has become current again -- namely OTC ethyl acetate. IIRC he used it as a source of high grade
ethanol.
If you do a search you should find it. Whether he is still active is another matter.
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VSEPR_VOID
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Quote: Originally posted by roXefeller  | | Haha just visited there, different island of course. Anyway, a rogue scientist might have to sneak around the national guard. They won't kindly
allow someone that close to a fissure. |
I imagine most of their job is preventing looting so there is a chance that they might not be watching. Alternatively said member could convince some
surveyors, first responders, or actual scientists to let them tag along.
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There's actually a reason they stop people going up to lava and active fissures. It is hardly a matter of walking up to a lump of sulfur and picking
it up. The gases coming off can actually kill you, you don't need to actually fall in the lava to die.
Although if I have to listen to another news report saying 'sulfur dioxide smells like rotten eggs'.....
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yeh i second the request for samples please 
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Most Common Gases
"Water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) are the most common volcanic gases."
Other Gases
"In lesser amounts, volcanoes release carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), carbonyl sulfide (COS), carbon disulfide (CS2), hydrogen chloride
(HCl), hydrogen (H2), methane (CH4), hydrogen flouride (HF), boron, hydrogen bromine (HBr), mercury (Hg) vapor, organic compounds, even gold. From
Cadle (1980)."
"Mercury is released by most volcanoes and has been measured at Kilauea, Mauna Loa, Hekla, Erebus, at Mount St. Helens (Siegel and Siegel, 1987).
Kilauea produces about 270 tons of mercury each year and has been identified as the source for mercury on Oahu, 320 km away."
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/book/export/html/151
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sulfur dioxide smells like rotten eggs
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Sulfur dioxide doesnt smell like rotten eggs, hydrogen sulfide smells like rotten eggs but so2 is far more acidic and unpleasant.
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I recall some very light pumice blocks my dad had for sanding that had sort of a rotten egg smell to them.
Some mention of them here also.
"I am very familiar with the material you are asking about. Oh my, does it ever stink like rotten eggs(hydrogen sulphide) if abraded! It is a
manufactured product and was used in industry like a sanding block for rust removal or whatever. I have run across it in older (pre-1970?) industrial
sites a couple times (past job locations-indoor and outdoor.) My experience has been that everyone avoided using that stuff due to the foul
odor,lol.** Jobsite anywhere a piece was turned up in moving equipment or even just 'discovered' in some dusty corner, the standard practice was to
get someone new to job (i.e. ~young to do something with it that would release
the smell and then have a chuckle over the shared disgust... "
"The fragility of the blocks, and bad odor, as well as the rapid and complete disintegration from use and thus 'messiness' of were are all drawbacks.
Maybe someone still makes it for 'some application' but I haven't seen anything in my experience in last 20 years that looked like 'new manufacture'.
I have no doubt development of the '3M mesh pad' type products completely killed the 'block stuff'.
Take some home to family and friends- it is awesome gag material My last
encounter was with a couple kids while riverside agate hunting, they found pieces of it. I of course said, "sniff it!" LOL"
"Maybe someone here can come up with the product name or manufacture patent process or something for posterity You should take a couple clean pics and
upload them for the record here- to help future finders with the same question."
https://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,288636,289669
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Both SO2 and H2S are associated with geothermal/volcanic activity. But obviously the S is in a different oxidation state.
I associate H2S with hydrothermal processes such as are encountered with geysers and other situations where magma influences the water table. (But I
am no geologist so this assessment may be an oversimplification.) SO2 in my understanding is more common in other forms of volcanism where gases are
released at high temperature in the absence of water.
Both are nasty. H2S needs only a low concentration to be dangerous but the smell threshold is below the danger threshold. And, at least in my
experience it seems to be present in quite low concentrations under normal circumstances. In this eruption there seems to be really large volumes of
SO2 being released at present -- enough to cause asphyxiation and death if you were in the wrong place.
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