There is no possible comment to make on this that won't be both offensive
and dangerous.

I love it.

> From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
> Reply-To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:21:22 -0700
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Cold weather camping, heating, etc.
>
> Admittedly my organic chemistry classes occurred 20+ years ago, but I
> remember butyl (or methyl) mercaptan as being what gives the lovely odor to
> one's liquid waste after eating asparagus and crotonaldehyde as the main
> component of a skunk's stench. (One remains up on this sort of thing when
> living with Karl.)
>
> Stephanie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Baker" <DBAKER5@KC.RR.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: Cold weather camping, heating, etc.
>
>
>> Wonderful!  Thank you.  I have been puzzling over this for a year.  (I
> never
>> did understand partial pressures, moles, etc.   I do remember that PV=nRT,
>> however.)
>>
>> Dave in KC
>> 85 Westy
>> http://members.fortunecity.com/davebaker1
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>
>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 2:20 PM
>> Subject: Re: Cold weather camping, heating, etc.
>>
>>
>>> yep. CO on top, CO2 on bottom.
>>>
>>> air is:
>>> nitrogen: 78.08%  and weights 28.0134g/mol
>>> oxygen: 20.9476% and weights 31.99 g/mol
>>> Argon: 0.934% and weights 39.948 g/mol
>>> (and the rest is less than .001% each, neon, co2, he, kr, xe, ch4, h2)
>>> Density is 1.2250 at sea level and 25C
>>>
>>> Carbon-Monoxide weights 28.005 grams/mole and has a density of .301 at
> sea
>>> level at 25C
>>>
>>> So therefore, CO is "lighter" than air and will build from the top down
>>> and not the bottom up, like CO2.  BUT BARELY. Look at those masses,
> there
>>> is not much difference.
>>>
>>> But the masses are really close so things like air currents are pretty
>>> important here.  But not with CO2- that stuff is really heavy and you
> can
>>> "see" it hang out down low.
>>>
>>> Ok, back to my gasses (butyl mercaptan-- the same stuff that makes
> skunks
>>> smell great!)
>>> -Matthew
>>>
>>> Matthew Pollard          "Racing with the wind and flirting with death
>>> Dept. Of Chemistry        So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath"
>>> University of Idaho
>>> www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
>>>
>>
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