[FWDLK] Fwd: Re: Sweet SMELL o' Success!!!

["Dr. Ed Vitz" <vitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Again Neal (And others interested in Chemistry !!??)
   That Elixir of Exner is technically VOCs (volatile organic chemicals).  As I mentioned before, the nasty ones are a hot topic now because some are degassed from building materials and are major indoor air pollutants.  So the methods are fairly common.  You use a little air pump to suck the air through a solvent that traps the VOCs, or you suck the air through a small canister of stuff that absorbs the VOCs.  Then you attach the sample canister to the $100,000 GC/MS (gas chromatograph/liquid spectrometer) that's right behind the tire changer in your shop.  You heat the sample, driving off the gases, and the GC separates them into pure components, then the MS beams the ions through a magnetic field and reports their masses (and masses of the fragments that result from this treatment).  You look up the masses to identify the compounds, and the peak size tells you how much was present.  You might be able to replicate the mixture in a spray that smelled like that old "new car !
 smell", b
   If this isn't already much more than you really wanted to hear about the VOC analysis, you can find out more by going to google.com or www.epa.gov and searching for VOC, or, for example:
http://www.skcshopping.com/itemdesc.asp?CartId=6501907LLBM-ACCWARE-M727&ic=226-345
   Best,
    Dokter DeSoto


----- Original Message -----
From: esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx (eastern sierra Adj Services)
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 10:02 pm
Subject: Sweet SMELL o' Success!!!Dr. Ed Vitz
Professor of Chemistry
Editor, Tested Demonstrations, J. Chem. Educ.
Kutztown University, Kutztown PA 19530
610.683.4443
http://faculty.kutztown.edu/vitz/


> Dr. Ed, what would be the best way, to collect the necessary
> volume of
> NOS new-car-smell
> from Virgil (the CAR, I mean!) in order to be able to analyze the
> chemical composition of the
> atmospheic  ELIXIR-of-EXNER ?
>
> btw, Happy Holidays, y'all!!
>
>
> Neil, Knorma & Horace
>
>

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