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Hydrogen Sulfide is what smells like rotten eggs. Sulfur is best described as the smell a strike match gives off. Light and match and smell. That's sulfur.

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Do farts smell like sulfur or does sulfur smell like farts?

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Why does sulfur have such a strong and unpleasant smell?

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You smell something that smells like sulfur coming from your vehicle?

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