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They are farting in our general direction!

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    Damned Frenchies![^]

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      Damned Frenchies![^]

      ==================================== Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise! ====================================

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      Septimus Hedgehog
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      I read that as well. I thought it was because they opened their foul mouths exhaling the stinking odour of garlic mixed with Disque Bleu cigarette smoke and what have you. If Horatio was alive, he'd have cured them.

      "I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68). "I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).

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        Damned Frenchies![^]

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        Roger Wright
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        It's fortunate that the concentration is low; mercaptan is not harmless (MSDS[^]), though the health effects are not long term or life threatening. Nasty stuff, which is what makes it so effective as a flammable gas odorant. :-D

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          It's fortunate that the concentration is low; mercaptan is not harmless (MSDS[^]), though the health effects are not long term or life threatening. Nasty stuff, which is what makes it so effective as a flammable gas odorant. :-D

          Will Rogers never met me.

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          Take a look at your MSDS:

          NFPA RATINGS (SCALE 0-4): HEALTH=0 FIRE=3 REACTIVITY=0

          See the "HEALTH=0" part? Yeah, not that dangerous. Mercaptans naturally occur in a lot of foods (garlic for example) and tBuSH is a common ingredient in flavors. So yeah, mostly harmless.

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            Take a look at your MSDS:

            NFPA RATINGS (SCALE 0-4): HEALTH=0 FIRE=3 REACTIVITY=0

            See the "HEALTH=0" part? Yeah, not that dangerous. Mercaptans naturally occur in a lot of foods (garlic for example) and tBuSH is a common ingredient in flavors. So yeah, mostly harmless.

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            I was looking more at the description of inhalation results - not very pleasant. The numeric rating only ranks the risk of serious, permanent damage, but I sure wouldn't care to be downwind of that stuff in any concentration! X|

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              I was looking more at the description of inhalation results - not very pleasant. The numeric rating only ranks the risk of serious, permanent damage, but I sure wouldn't care to be downwind of that stuff in any concentration! X|

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              MSDS are talking about industrial scale exposures. I wouldn't worry about it. As I said, it's in many foods and added to many other foods. It's used in tiny amounts because it's aroma is so potent. Hence why a release in France can be smelt in southern England. And why it's added (in tiny amounts) to natural gas, even a tiny leak is detectable by the nose. Look up the MSDS for any number of innocuous materials and you'll see similar things.

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                MSDS are talking about industrial scale exposures. I wouldn't worry about it. As I said, it's in many foods and added to many other foods. It's used in tiny amounts because it's aroma is so potent. Hence why a release in France can be smelt in southern England. And why it's added (in tiny amounts) to natural gas, even a tiny leak is detectable by the nose. Look up the MSDS for any number of innocuous materials and you'll see similar things.

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                I often do look up MSDS for all sorts of things, since it's fun to see what we're getting. Since we're a gas company, I know a bit about mercaptan. What I find interesting, though, is that the odor in natural gas is very unlike the odor in propane, even though they are both t-butyl mercaptan. Interesting, and handy to know in an area where many people use propane instead of natural gas. :)

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                  It's fortunate that the concentration is low; mercaptan is not harmless (MSDS[^]), though the health effects are not long term or life threatening. Nasty stuff, which is what makes it so effective as a flammable gas odorant. :-D

                  Will Rogers never met me.

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                  There was a leak of the stuff near where I live in England several years ago. As the cloud drifted over the north west, the local natural gas supplier got hundreds of calls reporting suspected gas leaks. By law they have to send an engineer to each report - they were not happy!

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