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Second Hand Smoke Does Not Rule (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's more methane in the atmosphere now. It probably smells like a fart.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

~~Methane needs 5-16PPM [PDF] to be detectable with human smell. Atmospheric Methane is at about 2ppm. So the vast majority of people would not notice a difference. ~~

nvm see below

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

methane doesn't have an odor, you linked to the data sheet of trichlorofluoromethane, a completely different molecule

The gas in your house is artificially made stinky so that people would notice leaks and blow their house up, which happened a lot back when the stinky chemicals weren't added and it was odorless

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That's what I get for moving quick, thank you. I guess the overall point that methane will not make the atmosphere smell still holds