Natural gas does not have any odor. In order to detect a gas leak, some gas companies add a chemical that smells similar like rotten eggs.
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By Qbicle 155 Days AgoOh you are SO wrong! Everything in nature has a smell, it does not mean when a human can't smell it, something else couldn't...
Yep, it smells like gas, like water tastes like water and cotton tastes like cotton...
By Anonymous 386 Days AgoThe compound which smells like rotten eggs is hydrogen sulfide, a normal contaminant of natural gas and the product of anaerobic microbial activity or anaerobic decomposition of organic matter.- By wowie 386 Days AgoThe original fact is correct; normally, natural gas has no odor. A substance called t-butyl mercaptan is added to it to make natural gas detectable by smell. This convention was started in the 1930's in the U.S. after there was a bad natural gas explosion in a school.
- By Jay-Mark 386 Days AgoYou are right dude. H2S is commonly found in sceptic tanks, used water plants etc... And yes, anaerobic conditions favorise fermentation thus the release of H2S.
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