Showing posts with label smell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smell. Show all posts

Thursday, November 19, 2015

"Man accused of assaulting girlfriend after she wouldn't smell his armpit"

Sara Bustilloz tells CBS 7 that Robinson Pinilla-Bolivar’s girlfriend claims that as she was washing dishes, Pinalla-Bolivar asked her to smell his armpit.

She says she said no, and then they got into argument.

She explains he responded by hitting her on the back of the head with a closed fist, and then held a knife to her.

She then says he fled the scene, and she called the police.

Sunday, October 26, 2014

We are about to land on a smelly comet

“What’s surprising is we already have extremely rich chemistry at this distance from the sun,”

“The perfume of 67P/C-G is quite strong, with the odor of rotten eggs (hydrogen sulfide), horse stable (ammonia), and the pungent, suffocating odor of formaldehyde. This is mixed with the faint, bitter, almond-like aroma of hydrogen cyanide,” Kathrin Altwegg, head of the ROSINA project at the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University of Bern, described the smell. “Add some whiff of alcohol (methanol) to this mixture, paired with the vinegar-like aroma of sulfur dioxide and a hint of the sweet aromatic scent of carbon disulfide, and you arrive at the ‘perfume’ of our comet”.