#Hydrogen Sulfide danger
12-Oct-94 23:12:06
Sb: #149041-#Hydrogen Sulfide danger
Fm: Doug Mitchell 70621,702
To: Michael Sternberg 76147,42
Hi, Michael–
"I don't know of a simple, safe qualitative test for arsenic." – does that
mean the heat-and-sniff-for-"garlic"-test is unreliable or unreasonably
dangerous or both? I have tended to assume the "garlic" test is dangerous but
not quite as bad as H2S; maybe my assumption that As would be emitted in lesser
quantities from arsenides than H2S from sulfides? What is the garlic smell,
AsO3 or some such?
–Doug