Posted: 6/24/2016 4:39:03 PM EDT
Why does shit that's bad for you smell so great??? |
Many years ago, I learned to identify a handful of different carcinogens by smell 
Got out of that career path very early 
Best day was when a senior chemist and the lowly minion (me) were running a "shut down" pilot line behind the union's back, this one-armed steward found out and came by to shake his hook  at us before filing a grievance.
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Quoted: Many years ago, I learned to identify a handful of different carcinogens by smell Got out of that career path very early Best day was when a senior chemist and the lowly minion (me) were running a "shut down" pilot line behind the union's back, this one-armed steward found out and came by to shake his hook at us before filing a grievance. I work around hydrocarbons all day every day. Mostly NGL, since I'm the only person who knows how to use a gas chromatograph with liquid hydrocarbons...be we do a lot of gas samples as well. We have a few gallons of pure benzene at work. We use it to find the molecular weight of condensate after we shink it and de-pentenize it |
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Quoted: It's chemical structure is generally referred to as a polycyclic aromatic hence the commonality chemically with other aromatic compounds. I hate to resort to pedantic nitpicking but while benzene is indeed an aromatic compound, it isn't polycyclic. Benzo(a)pyrene is polycyclic, but not benzene. |
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I did not like the smell of any aromatics. Benzene is an aromatic. I made my living refining benzene to a spec of 99.99%. I does causes cancer in some people. We had to wear a respirator anytime the level was 1.0ppm or greater. Also made toluene and xylene also aromatics by the barge full. To this day I can't stand to be around nail polish remover. |
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Quoted: I hate to resort to pedantic nitpicking but while benzene is indeed an aromatic compound, it isn't polycyclic. Benzo(a)pyrene is polycyclic, but not benzene. Quoted: Quoted: It's chemical structure is generally referred to as a polycyclic aromatic hence the commonality chemically with other aromatic compounds. I hate to resort to pedantic nitpicking but while benzene is indeed an aromatic compound, it isn't polycyclic. Benzo(a)pyrene is polycyclic, but not benzene. |