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Re: [Amps] Cool Amp Silver Plating

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Cool Amp Silver Plating
From: Bill Turner <dezrat1242@wildblue.net>
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 09:10:02 -0800
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On 3/1/2014 8:55 AM, gdaught6@stanford.edu wrote:
Cyanide gas is NOT odorless.  It smells of almonds   'bitter almonds' if I 
recall my
chemistry book correctly.

REPLY:

Interestingly, according to Wikipedia some people can not smell hydrogen cyanide:

"HCN has a faint, bitter, almond-like odor that some people are unable to detect owing to a genetic trait."

More info at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_cyanide

73, Bill W6WRT

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