[Amps] Cool Amp Silver Plating

Bill Turner dezrat1242 at wildblue.net
Sat Mar 1 12:10:02 EST 2014


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On 3/1/2014 8:55 AM, gdaught6 at 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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