Great receipe, but you forgot the wadded up panties..... :^) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott H" <kneedrager@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Fwd: Re: Sweet SMELL o' Success!!! > That is a great explination. > Old car smell is much easier and far less expensive to accomplish. Take a > few old socks, rags and towels. soak them in some dirty water then place > inside a plastic bag. Keep it in a cold damp dark corner of a basement for > 1-2 weeks. Remove bage from basement. Place bag in car and open bag. leave > the car in the sun with windows closed for a few hours and any car will have > that just pulled from the scrp yard smell :) > > > Scott > 1956 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer > 2002 Dodge Ram Quad Cab > > > > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: "Dr. Ed Vitz" <vitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: vitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [FWDLK] Fwd: Re: Sweet SMELL o' Success!!! > Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 17:52:53 -0500 > > 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 > > > > > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > Over 25,000 pages of archived Forward Look information can be easily > searched at > http://www.forwardlook.net/search.htm Powered by Google! > > _________________________________________________________________ > Expand your wine savvy - and get some great new recipes - at MSN Wine. > http://wine.msn.com > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > Over 25,000 pages of archived Forward Look information can be easily searched at > http://www.forwardlook.net/search.htm Powered by Google! -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Over 25,000 pages of archived Forward Look information can be easily searched at http://www.forwardlook.net/search.htm Powered by Google!
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