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DaveC426913
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- I think it smells like burnt sintered steel filings.
I've recently started using a CPAP machine, which filters air and pumps it through a water chamber to humidify it.
After a night of sleeping with it, I take it off in the morning and, once I breathe normal air, it has a very strong and distinctive smell. To me, it smells like something metallic and burnt (I don't know what "sintering" is off hand, but I fancy this is what it smells like).
The astronauts that visited the Moon described the smell as like "burnt gunpowder", which is as good a description as mine. Maybe they were just smelling regular air?
Thanks to ActionLabs, I know that that water has a taste. So maybe air has an odour.
After a night of sleeping with it, I take it off in the morning and, once I breathe normal air, it has a very strong and distinctive smell. To me, it smells like something metallic and burnt (I don't know what "sintering" is off hand, but I fancy this is what it smells like).
The astronauts that visited the Moon described the smell as like "burnt gunpowder", which is as good a description as mine. Maybe they were just smelling regular air?
Thanks to ActionLabs, I know that that water has a taste. So maybe air has an odour.