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moffkalast 5 hours ago

So it's not volatile enough to give off a scent?

jaggederest 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Massive molecule with a lithium salt on every silicon atom. It's not going to have basically any vapor pressure and thus effectively no aroma unless there are breakdown products

jfengel 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Even if it were volatile, you likely wouldn't be able to smell it. The olfactory sense is complicated and weird, and targeted at organic chemistry. You can smell a few inorganic things (notably, elemental osmium, whose name literally means "smell" because that's so unusual), but your receptors are unlikely to trigger for anything that far removed.

card_zero 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Doesn't this count as organic? Ferrocene smells of camphor, apparently. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/ferrocene