Can you actually smell metal?
Published May 10, 2019
This video has 7.38M views and 171K likes, ranking #714,362 globally among tracked YouTube videos by view count.
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7,381,073
Likes
171,160
Comments
9,512
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Sorry, the shirts shown in this video are no longer available :( If metal has no odor and you can't smell it, then what are we smelling? It turns out that it's mostly a chemical called 1-octen-3-one, which is generated when your skin oils react with metal that you've touched. I thought this was really interesting, and…
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- May 10, 2019
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