Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1901 — Smell and Metals. [ARTICLE]

Smell and Metals.

Some metals have a very much more pronounced smell than ’others. The smell of tin especially 'when newly cut, is unmistakable, but it is a moot point whether gold or platinum has any smell that could be recognised by human olfactory organs. Of the rarer metals uranium and all Its compounds give the strongest smell and this gives us the reason why metals should have an odor. Urahlum is always-giving dtt what are known as the Becquerel rsya.4 consisting of streams of excessively minute "corpuscles.”