Ozone is the smell of an electrical fire
Comment on Petrichor
lnxtx@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
I thought it was ozone.
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
lnxtx@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Or poliester fleece or blanket when you hear little sparks.
Some will remember playing with a CRT TV screen 👀can@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I remember the feeling and the sound, but not scent.
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Smells kinda dry and vaguely fishy/metallic.
Should be noted however that it’s not very healthy to breathe it in and large and/or repeated exposures can cause respiratory damage. Some static electricity is probably fine but I don’t want to encourage someone to go out there and learn what it smells like first hand
keepcarrot@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
Also welding. Also lasgun shots
propter_hog@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
When I first started learning how to weld, I always wore a respirator because a lot of the fumes can be dangerous. So anyway, we come back to the shop after our lunch break and my first thought was damn, what’s that smell?
psud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Also lightning
Album@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Diff smell.
I call this ‘outside’ smell and you can smell it on a clear day.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
There’s also fat volatiles in our skin that metals and sunlight degrade, so that outside smell could be the smell of you in the sun.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
There’s a saying, someone smells like sun.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 weeks ago
It is also that.
Petrichor is the smell of rain and is a term like Channelle #5 where it’s a combination of ozone and geosmin and other compounds.