• saigot@lemmy.ca
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    23 days ago

    ~~Methane needs 5-16PPM [PDF] to be detectable with human smell. Atmospheric Methane is at about 2ppm. So the vast majority of people would not notice a difference. ~~

    nvm see below

    • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
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      23 days ago

      methane doesn’t have an odor, you linked to the data sheet of trichlorofluoromethane, a completely different molecule

      The gas in your house is artificially made stinky so that people would notice leaks and blow their house up, which happened a lot back when the stinky chemicals weren’t added and it was odorless