| ▲ | 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. | ||||||||
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