this afternoon at school has been awesome. There was enough kidneys in biology for me to be able to dissect one by my myself. ^.^ How I love dissections! The only thing i don't like is the latex after smell of my hands...the smell of the dissection i don't have a problem with..its the smell of the latex gloves...>.<

put a drop of olbas oil on the skin under your nose. you won't smell anything else for a few hours.

You'll also have a face covered in snot, just learn to like the smell as with any other chemical.

Well, i don't have any of that stuff..but I found this medical hand wash stuff i have really takes the smell away ^.^ I mean its not like I can't cope with it, its just I'd rather a pleasant smelling gloves then the Latex.

i can put up with butyric acid. latex doesn't bother me after that.

never used Butyric acid before..what is its use?

umm i can't think of one of the top of my head but its found in vomit in very low concentrations and causes most of the smell. concentrated butyric acid is a whole new level of stench. still comes nowhere near mercaptans though. they'll singe the hairs on your nose at 100 paces.

ewww! >.< I can cope with rotting and vomit type stuff, dunno why I just don't really like the smell of latex. But I guess the acid at a higher concentration would be that much worse then vomit correct?

umm yeah. the teacher opened a small bottle of it in class for about 5 seconds and you could smell it all over the school for a week after wards. it was a reasonable sized school 1500 pupils

Thats insane...>.< think chemical warfare...or a least chemical blackmail could be achievable.

Methyl Mercaptan if ya Really wanna kick up a fuss

Whats that one smell like?

Hell

thats the one they put in natural gas at about 1 part per 100 billion to make it smell.

 

oops. they use ethyl mecaptan. they smell the same though just methyl is stronger.

 

the proper name for methyl mercaptan is methanethiol

There were girls in my class that wouldn't even have a go because of the blood and the "flesh" smell.

 

>.< I love dissections.

 

that Gas sounds evil...

Mercaptoethanol is also nice. Especially if one manages to drop an unsecured 1l bottle in the stairhall...

Butyric acid is a common fermentation product of a variety of anaerobic bacteria btw. Clostridia are probably amongs the best known.

 

 

 

Anyway, try to get nitrile gloves. They smell less.

Well once in our school there was a guy who purposedly spilled a bottle of butyric acid. The whole school smelled concentrated vomit and we got one day off because of the smell.

Here in Sweden butyric acid is also called trivially "Butter acid" because it's formed when butter goes rancid. Smells like it too.

Use Latex free Nitrile gloves, that`s what I use in the Lab, not for any smell or alergy issues, they`re just generaly more resistant to most chems.