Showing posts with label hydrogen sulfide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hydrogen sulfide. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Primordial Soup makes Smelly Lab

If an article mentions Smelly - I read it. Here, the mention of a Smelly Lab and recent technology able to further the findings of Stanley Miller's famous 1953 experiment, his creation of primordial soup of organic molecules. New York Times article, 26 March 2011 click here

Re: hydrogen sulfide -

"It's very smelly," Hazen explained. "Just a trace of it will make your lab absolutely uninhabitable — and make you enemies up and down the hall for months."

 

An article of 27 October 2008 mentions that hydrogen sulfide, with its noticeable rotten egg smell, may actually regulate blood pressure ...  click here
... something soakers of sulfur mineral springs have long known!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

more on sulfur

continuing from the post on Funky Green Imposter's sulfurous performance in the Green Aria at the Guggenheim  

an article of 3 March 2009 in click  The Sun on Vi-eggra notes findings on the importance of hydrogen sulphide ...


the smell of rotting eggs gives men erections?


And, in the Middle Ages, sulfur was among ingredients thought to protect against the plague. Leaf scents of the sulfur group include mustard, onions, garlic. 

Illustration: DNA Egg Lura Astor