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Q: What is the element that makes rotten eggs smell badly?
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A component element of gunpowder that smells like rotten eggs?

its sulphur. its sulphur. i believe that the answer you are looking for is sulphur, it does indeed smell like rotten eggs


Why do volcnoes smell?

Volcanoes often contain sulfur, an element that can smell like rotten eggs.


What makes a car smell like rotten eggs?

Car exhaust can smell like rotten eggs when the fuel has a lot of sulphur in it.


Why do some farts smell of rotten eggs?

Some farts smell of rotten eggs because they contain Hydrogen Sulphide - which is what gives rotten eggs their smell!


Does proscuito smell rotten?

proscuitto shouldn't smell rotten, it should smell salty and just a bit meaty.


Why does your car smell like rotten eggs when you shut it off?

Typically this is caused when the fuel is burned uncleanly and the sulfur in gas makes it smell


What is the cause of the rotten egg smell your car makes when you drive it?

It's possible that your alternator is overcharging your battery.


What makes Yellowstone National Park smell like rotten eggs?

That smell is actually sulfur burning off in the park's various sulfur pits.


What do rotten eggs smell like?

Rotten eggs, for some reason, strangely smell like rotten eggs. ha no rotton eggs smell like farts/breaking wind


Why does natural gas smell like rotten eggs?

Because the smell is added so it can be detected. If natural gas smells like rotten eggs then it contains H2S or hydrogen sulfide. Actually the smell associated with rotten eggs is hydrogen sulfide, so hydrogen sulfide does not smell like rotten eggs, rotten eggs smell like hydrogen sulfide.


Why does gas smell like rotten eggs?

Because the smell is added so it can be detected. If natural gas smells like rotten eggs then it contains H2S or hydrogen sulfide. Actually the smell associated with rotten eggs is hydrogen sulfide, so hydrogen sulfide does not smell like rotten eggs, rotten eggs smell like hydrogen sulfide.


Which chemical makes farts smell like rotten eggs?

Sulfur, or Sulphur from the foods that the person / animal has eaten.