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moffkalastyesterday at 5:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

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


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jaggederestyesterday at 6:34 PM

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

jfengelyesterday at 7:15 PM

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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