Has anyone noticed a detectable smell/odour of deuterium gas (other than that of perhaps HV generated ozone in the room)?
There's been some studies on "vibrational smell".
Just curious.
TIA!
JM
Deuterium odour/smell?
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John Moats
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Deuterium odour/smell?
Probably a silly question,
Has anyone noticed a detectable smell/odour of deuterium gas (other than that of perhaps HV generated ozone in the room)?
There's been some studies on "vibrational smell".
Just curious.
TIA!
JM
Has anyone noticed a detectable smell/odour of deuterium gas (other than that of perhaps HV generated ozone in the room)?
There's been some studies on "vibrational smell".
Just curious.
TIA!
JM
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Richard Hull
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Re: Deuterium odour/smell?
No...Never smelled a thing! I sure hope I never smell deuterium! If it has a smell and you sense it......You gotta' leak!....A bad one!... Snorting or huffing deuterium is one of those habits I choose not to develop.
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Fusion is the energy of the future....and it always will be
The more complex the idea put forward by the poor amateur, the more likely it will never see embodiment
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Mark Rowley
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Re: Deuterium odour/smell?
Sounds like an expensive and phenomenally wasteful leak as well!
Hopefully no one has leaked a quantity significant enough to answer this question. Although I can’t imagine it having any distinctive odor. Every scientific publication I’ve read lists hydrogen, deuterium, and helium as odorless.
No shortage of easily searchable and credible resources on the web.
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Deuterium
Mark Rowley
Hopefully no one has leaked a quantity significant enough to answer this question. Although I can’t imagine it having any distinctive odor. Every scientific publication I’ve read lists hydrogen, deuterium, and helium as odorless.
No shortage of easily searchable and credible resources on the web.
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Deuterium
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Dennis P Brown
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Re: Deuterium odour/smell?
No one, and mean no one should ever have any significant deuterium released in any room - deuterium, like hydrogen, has a huge range over which it explodes. The trivial amount exhausted by a vacuum pump won't pose a hazard; likely you are smelling oil vapor fumes from the pump.