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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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