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It's also possible for people who consume alcoholic beverages frequently, or in great quantities, to have acetone like breath.
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This could cause the smell of metals:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oct-1-en-3-one
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twice i have been with people that leave the whole room smelling like strong B complex vitamins.both times the persons color seemed yellowish. i
thought the smell emitted from their breath but it also came from out their nostrils. i quickly thought of liver disease as in psorosis or hepatitis
but medicines also can cause wierd smells and diabetes also cause liver and kidney damage. hygiene had not much to do with it but it didnt matter
because i still reacted as if they had the plague.
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Tonight I grabbed my dehydrated copper sulfate to color the camp fire. It was stored in a plastic water bottle. When I opened it, I was greeted with a
very strange smell, reminiscent of a organic solvent, but I can't put my thumb on it.
could the copper sulfate have reacted with the water bottle?
edit- I remember pouring the Copper Sulfate in the bottle when it was still hot.
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As far as I have supposed it is the iron itself that contains free sulfurous or phosphorous particles that grant this smell. The particles are then
dispersed and hardly separable when metallic iron is dissolve. As a sample, shiny bars of iron had been cleaned free from rust by immersing in a
citric/ benzoic acid aqueous solution and then washed with lime water, the shiny iron smelled just as solutions of iron sulphate, and on accounting
for the washes its not likely that the organic compounds played a significant role with it.
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Actually Poppy, it's not that iron has a smell but it's the smell of our lipid peroxides which react with Fe ions.
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But, how simple is it, it just has been told, what if no bare hand had touched the iron piece at all?
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It could be that there is contact with them over our breath, air-nose-metal etc.. It doesn't necessarily need a touch as the smell can be noticed in
very small concentrations.
Now I'm talking about metallic taste and smell as in taste of blood, there are more of these metalic type smells. One could also be phosphorus and
sulphur impurities too, especially rhis can be noticed when you dissolve iron nails in HCl there is smell of H2S.
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I have a copper counter in my house, and it has a very characteristic smell.
I cannot describe it beyond metallic.
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I have just found this thread so I will not open a new one. The thing is that I can very easily detect the smell of copper, particularly if I am
rubbing a copper object with my fingers. Actually, when I inhale deeply with the object close to my nostrils, it is even uncomfortable. I have also
noticed a different smell when I dissolve copper(II) sulfate in hot water. Just lean to the hot beaker and draw in some air and you'll get that smell.
It is NOT the same smell. In fact, I believe that the latter one has something to do with the sulphur. Iron smell, copper smell, nickel smell,
aluminium smell, zinc smell... they are not the same. I'm really intrigued.
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Okay tin smells particularly different IMO but the metallic smells are not quite distinctive.
Likewise keeping stuff on people's house certainly impregnates them with distinctive smells. Just figure a teen's room closed 24/7 while he/ she farts
and eats pizza, disgusting. Pity for the old brass clock standing beside the couch.
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Quote: Originally posted by Poppy  | Okay tin smells particularly different IMO but the metallic smells are not quite distinctive.
Likewise keeping stuff on people's house certainly impregnates them with distinctive smells. Just figure a teen's room closed 24/7 while he/ she farts
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The smell I mentioned is found on every copper object, regardless of the location. Iron objects brushed with steel wool to expose the metal also smell
particularly strong.
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