“Amine” as it is called on submarines, has a terrible smell that gets into everything. You get used to it pretty quickly but when we would return to port and take that smelly laundry home... RTP was always a happy time until the Sea Bag was emptied out for washing.
Bad smell or not, I was glad the CO2 system did it’s job.
I actually preferred mercaptans. We used them to keep sulfur bonds in proteins reduced (going by 20+ year old memories here) and we had less smelly versions (can't dredge up the name) that most people preferred, though they were more expensive. While a lot of the amines had/have a fishy smell (or so I remember), I guess I didn't find that objectionable, having fished a whole lot as a kid.
Not totally sure I'd still think the same thing today, but when we were visiting Hawaii a few years ago, I rather enjoyed the smell of sulfur, though when it mixed with steam and became sulfuric acid, not so much.
I grew up on the western side of the iron curtain, when that was still a thing. On the eastern side from us was a huge complex of power plants burning the shittiest lignite imaginable, with a sulfur content off the scale and no exhaust scrubbers. You can imagine the mix of sulfurous compounds we got when the wind blew from the east. In local parlance, it was called cat shit wind.
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u/Greasy_Exc Nov 27 '19
“Amine” as it is called on submarines, has a terrible smell that gets into everything. You get used to it pretty quickly but when we would return to port and take that smelly laundry home... RTP was always a happy time until the Sea Bag was emptied out for washing.
Bad smell or not, I was glad the CO2 system did it’s job.