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Can you actually smell metal?

NileRed 6,703,705 6 years ago
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Sorry, the shirts shown in this video are no longer available :( If metal has no odor and you can't smell it, then what are we smelling? It turns out that it's mostly a chemical called 1-octen-3-one, which is generated when your skin oils react with metal that you've touched. I thought this was really interesting, and I decided to try making pure 1-octen-3-one myself and to see what it smelled like. Procedure: • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004040390202004X Background info: • https://www.nature.com/news/2006/061023/full/news061023-7.html • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oct-1-en-3-one 1-octen-3-ol: • https://shop.perfumersapprentice.com/p-6002-amyl-vinyl-carbinol.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Merch - https://nilered.tv/store ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ■ NileRed is now available on Nebula! https://go.nebula.tv/nilered (when signing up with this link, a portion of your membership directly supports the channel) Join the community: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/nilered Discord - https://discord.com/invite/3BT6UHf NileRed Newsletter - https://nile.red/home#newsletter You can also find me here: Facebook - https://m.facebook.com/NileRed2 Instagram - https://m.instagram.com/nile.red Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/NileRed2 Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA Music in credits (Walker by SORRYSINES): https://soundcloud.com/sorrysines/walker

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