[pure-silver] Re: Ethyl Mercaptan
- From: Peter Badcock <peter.badcock@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 06:33:10 +1100
Hi Ray,
Sorry, I wasn't intending to correct you. When I briefly read your reply I
skimmed it too fast and *totally* missed the fact that you indicated T-butyl
mercaptan was just one of many mercaptans used. I incorrectly interpreted
your reply as wondering what the specific mercaptan was called (despite you
stating one of them !)
I had also naively assumed that ethyl mercaptan was the main one used
everywhere. But it turns out different ones are used in different countries.
rgds
Peter
On 4 February 2010 02:46, Ray Rogers <earthsoda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Hummm... Your response looks like you were correcting me! (smile & a wink)
> I am not sure if correction was what I needed but anyway...
>
> I point you to:
>
> http://www.ems.psu.edu/~pisupati/ACSOutreach/Natural_Gas.html<http://www.ems.psu.edu/%7Episupati/ACSOutreach/Natural_Gas.html>
>
> from which the following can be found...
>
> "Natural gas is odorless and colorless; the slightly sour smell that we
> associate with the gas coming from a stovetop is due to an odorization
> process (for safety and leak detection) which adds mercaptan compounds to
> the end-use gas (more precisely, odorization compounds are mixtures of
> t-butyl mercaptan, isopropyl mercaptan, tetrahydrothiophene, dimethyl
> sulfide and other sulfur compounds)."
>
>
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