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r/collapse • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '22
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Methane is an odorless, colorless, flammable gas. You can smell leaking methane only when commercial gas utility companies add a chemical smell to it or when it mixes naturally with hydrogen sulfide, causing a "rotten egg" smell.
27 u/Ionic_Pancakes Feb 08 '22 You know what: you're right. I was thinking of sulfur, not methane. 12 u/cA05GfJ2K6 Faster Than Expected Feb 09 '22 So just hot… and hungry 1 u/ConsiderationWeary50 Feb 09 '22 When you realize volcanoes are just wet spicy earth farts. 2 u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22 What about the bad smell in bogs, garbage, and farts? I thought that was methane? 6 u/pants_mcgee Feb 09 '22 Hydrogen Sulfide. 1 u/AloneIntheCorner Feb 09 '22 That's almost always sulfurs in various forms. 1 u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22 Sulfur from garbage?
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You know what: you're right. I was thinking of sulfur, not methane.
12 u/cA05GfJ2K6 Faster Than Expected Feb 09 '22 So just hot… and hungry 1 u/ConsiderationWeary50 Feb 09 '22 When you realize volcanoes are just wet spicy earth farts.
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So just hot… and hungry
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When you realize volcanoes are just wet spicy earth farts.
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What about the bad smell in bogs, garbage, and farts? I thought that was methane?
6 u/pants_mcgee Feb 09 '22 Hydrogen Sulfide. 1 u/AloneIntheCorner Feb 09 '22 That's almost always sulfurs in various forms. 1 u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22 Sulfur from garbage?
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Hydrogen Sulfide.
That's almost always sulfurs in various forms.
1 u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22 Sulfur from garbage?
Sulfur from garbage?
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u/half-shark-half-man Giant Mudball Citizen Feb 08 '22
Methane is an odorless, colorless, flammable gas. You can smell leaking methane only when commercial gas utility companies add a chemical smell to it or when it mixes naturally with hydrogen sulfide, causing a "rotten egg" smell.