Sciencemadness Discussion Board

blocking your sense of smell?

kclo4 - 23-12-2006 at 20:00

i was wondering if its possible
i am unable to find much information on it at the moment so i would appericiate it if anybody could help me on this
i know that Anosmia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anosmia
is where you are unable to smell, so you have a great enough lack of olfaction

perhaps if there was some drug or something perhaps like that, that would stop your smell receptors, then it would make it where you couldnt smell

perhaps you guys know more :)

all your help will be helpful *hence it being help... haha*

bleh sorry im on a comp with out spell check

Pyrovus - 23-12-2006 at 20:30

Well, H2S is notorious for knocking out the sense of smell at high concentrations - many people have died because it knocked out their ability to smell it, so they assumed that they had got away from the gas whereas in reality they were still breathing it in.

kclo4 - 23-12-2006 at 22:01

yeah, but i want some of a real power to knock out smell

if you have ever read number the stars

theres these napkins that have something on them the dogs smell, and then they cant smell anything or cant smell hardly anything for quite a while
does anybody know what chemical that is?

12AX7 - 24-12-2006 at 09:15

As if the chemical in a novel exists? Are you trolling?

kclo4 - 24-12-2006 at 13:14

I guess it doesn't
but i thought the book was based on all this true stuff and yatta yatta
but i guess i might be wrong about that
I read the book in 6th grade, and now its 9th so i guess it might not even be the case

h0lx - 25-12-2006 at 02:40

I guess the napkins are salmiack AKA NH4Cl which fucks up the dogs receptors. I remember reading or hearing it from somewhere that NH4Cl is a good dog repellant.

kclo4 - 25-12-2006 at 10:24

really?
thats interesting but why on earth would that bother a dog? haha i mean "ahh a napkin in salt"

12AX7 - 25-12-2006 at 11:44

Sal ammoniac (WTF is "salmiack"?), proper name ammonium chloride, is a stable salt. Ammonium carbonate (or is it bicarbonate?) is used as "smelling salts", and may in fact be what you are thinking of.

Tim

gil - 14-1-2007 at 17:25

A friend of mine blocked it's own sense of smell permanently.I mean for years.Was 20n' odd years ago.
lost contact since.But He was affected for 3 or 4 years minimum.

Formaldehyde

franklyn - 31-1-2012 at 20:38

For this very reason it was actually a component of "Air Fresheners ".

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GreenD - 1-2-2012 at 07:44

You could stick "miracle fruit" up your nose with interesting results.