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There's no standard recipe for natural gas odorant, but it's typically a mixture of various organosulfur compounds, not hydrogen sulfide. See: https://en.wikip
by mrob 2y ago
There's no standard recipe for natural gas odorant, but it's typically a mixture of various organosulfur compounds, not hydrogen sulfide. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odorizer#Natural_gas_odorizers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odorizer#Natural_gas_odorizers
- timschmidt 2y agoTIL!
- rob74 2y agoTIL also - until today, I thought it was just "mercaptan". Turns out there are actually two variants of that: > Ethanethiol (EM), commonly known as ethyl mercaptan is used in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and resembles odor of leeks, onions, durian, or cooked cabbage Methanethiol, commonly known as methyl mercaptan, is added to natural gas as an odorant, usually in mixtures containing methane. Its smell is reminiscent of rotten eggs or cabbage. ...but you can still call it "mercaptan" and be ~ correct in most cases.