Comment on What's the vaporization temperature of mouse urine?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
This is one of those oddly specific questions that makes me think “Dude, I’m not doing your homework for you.”
Comment on What's the vaporization temperature of mouse urine?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
This is one of those oddly specific questions that makes me think “Dude, I’m not doing your homework for you.”
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It’s two separate questions I guess, where the answer, would answer both.
As for the more pressing issue. It’s inside some automotive internal stuff, that just wouldn’t be worth the time or expense to remove it. I really want to retain the vehicle for limited use cases, mice no longer are in the vehicle, but the odor is bad.
I don’t necessarily expect to eliminate the odor 100%, but any reduction to the point where you don’t feel like your breathing in some measuruable amount of mouse urea would be nice…
jj122@lemmings.world 7 months ago
Look into ozone generators or ozium air fresheners. Ozone generators sanitize without heat and help reduce odors but might be expensive and take a long time to be effective (hours to days). Ozium air fresheners absorb the odor and they got the gasoline smell out of my car, no idea how they work but you just leave them in your car.
volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 7 months ago
So, I have no clue what exactly it is that you want to heat and how you would do it (I somehow imagine you trying to put some part of a car in a microwave or blow drying your radio) but as for whether it would work to eliminate the odor that is bothering you… I am no expert on mouse urine smell but I did work with GC and judging from GC-O measurements you need to go up quite over 100°C to make every molecule that gives off smell volatile. So my guess would be, no, you cannot cook off the smell. My guess is even if you literally boiled a cup of mouse urine for an hour on a stove and let it cool down it would still have some odor left.
That being said, I very much hope I am wrong and you or someone else will prove otherwise!
The way I would go about it is probably to use something like Febreze, basically trying to put the odor molecule into a complex (is this how Febreze works?) where it either cannot bind to your receptors anymore or isn’t volatile anymore. Probably do all of it, first blow dry (?) and heat off what you can, then use some H2O2 spray if the plastic allows it first (might even get some stuff to oxidize and change its properties i.e. the smell), then blow dry (?) it again to heat off what you can, then use an odor neutralizer.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Lol, yall are really good at getting in my brain.
So I basically have a very large tapered heat gun, with a fan… basically like a really dangerous blow dryer. I know from experience, that I can’t continuously heat in the same place (melts plastic, that I thought almost couldn’t be melted…)
From your comment, and others, it seems like heat might not be the most ideal solution. It seems as if all this vents out to certain points that make sense, and have adequate airflow (no idea if this is actuality, taking it apart would take apart my week). So I could buy anything within reason, is febreeze the best solution if I went that route? I have heard of using “Ozium” instead or there is some kind of weird sugar type substance (can’t remember the name off my head) that was recommended that could encapsulate it?
volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Lol oh Jesus please don’t use the heat gun (although I would love to use it myself), apart from the danger, I’ll also point out that while you might not melt the plastic, you might still destabilize it and/or release some actually toxic (and also smelly) compounds. I imagine a low heat blow with a normal hair dryer just to air it out would be a smart step though.
As for what works best in terms of encapsulation - I would try to ask in a community of rodent lovers. I can imagine that those guys have their secret weapons.