Date:         Thu, 1 Nov 2001 08:49:15 -0500
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From:         Karl Ploessl <ploessl@SUNMAC.SPECT.UPENN.EDU>
Subject:      halloween topic
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cadaverine C5H14N2 (1,5 diamino pentane): colourless liquid smelling of
ammonia, which is produced in rotting meat and other foods which contain
the amino acid lysine. Cadaverine also occurs in cheese

whereas mercaptanes are sulfur compounds. And I know that you don't want to
handle methyl mercaptan. we did use mercaptanes, selenols and tellurides
quite a bit (I could give you a lecture about that :-)) and even after
taking showers people still could smell us when we walked into bars. That
was years ago during grad school, now I am glowing in the dark :-)

Vanagon content: It is the sulphur oxides that attack the catalytic
converters and causes the smell of 'rotten eggs' from exhausts.

Karl
'81 Westy "Jenny"
Wilmington, DE