Comment on Moon dust
It also reportedly smells like gunpowder.
Burned or unburned? They are two distinct smells.
Burned, according to the astronauts. I don’t know if the exact mechanism has been published anywhere, but since spent gunpowder has been oxidized I imagine that’s what’s going on with the dust as well.
prayer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Burned or unburned? They are two distinct smells.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Burned, according to the astronauts. I don’t know if the exact mechanism has been published anywhere, but since spent gunpowder has been oxidized I imagine that’s what’s going on with the dust as well.