Strong-smelling compounds of carbon, hydrogen and sulphur found in oil and gas. Added to natural gas for safety reasons.
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organic chemical compounds that have a sulphur-like odour that are added to natural gas before distribution to the consumer to give it a distinct, unpleasant odour;
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Trivial name for thiols; see there. Thiols Large group of volatile organic sulphur compounds (also alkanthiols, thioalcohols and, as an obsolete trivial term, mercaptans). They belong to the group of organic acids with slightly higher acidity than alcohols and phenols, for example. Thiols also undergo the same reactions as alcohol, but instead...
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Describes a very unpleasant smell of old sulfur, found mainly in very old white wine.
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A class of unpleasant smelling chemical substances containing sulfur. They have aromas of cabbage, dirty socks, rubber and the like, and when found in wine are considered a major fault. The term
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