Re: NORM Question -Reply

[jpettigrew@halnet.com (Jeff Pettigrew)]

What you're smelling is most likely H2S (Hydrogen Sulphide) which has a rotten egg smell.  Luling, Texas is/was also (in)famous for its aroma.
The H2S was coming from the many oil wells in the area.

Jeff Pettigrew



>As our paper folks would say Albert, "that's just the smell of
>money" ... either that, or "what smell?" ... since they've
>already used up their last olfactory neuron. I don't know that
>I've made the same "olfactory connection" that you have, but
>I'll pass the info along.
>
>Thanks for the reply.
>
>>>> Albert Lee Vest  10/20/95 09:50 >>>
>
>No such experience per se, but I have noticed an olfactory
>association.
>I've smelled the same offensive odor in three places:
>
>1) Driving past a paper mill,
>
>2) In locations where radium-bearing materials have been in
>storage for a very long time, and
>
>3) At the mineral-water wells in Saratoga Spa State (NY)
>Park, which emit water containing minute amounts of radium,
>along with other minerals.
>
>If I were to just "think with my nose", I'd have to believe
>there's a connection. 
>
>
>

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