The odor is from sulphide gases.
If you can smell a fart, you are smelling poop aerosols.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Sulfide gas smells different, more like rotten eggs.
Farts smell like poop.
If you can smell a fart, you are smelling poop aerosols.
The odor is from sulphide gases.
Sulfide gas smells different, more like rotten eggs.
Farts smell like poop.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not necessarily, gasses smell too.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I hadn’t considered this! So when you poop in the toilet, the bad smell is partially from gases, not entirely from airborne poop particles?
I’m also really sketched out about how belly button lint is from underwear, but i guess that’s off the topic.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Definitely partly from the gaseous byproducts of digestion, yes.
Also poop aerosols, but not exclusively.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
That makes a lot of sense. I searched and found a good article on the subject: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/48224/20240117/why-poop-smell-bad-science-behind-unpleasant-odor-stool.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skatole?wprov=sfla1 (this is a volatile, airborne chemical)