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Re:Smell PGH lets you report weird smells in Pittsburgh by sp332 on Thursday June 22, 2017 @12:39PM (#14613460)
Pretty small, but not cell-phone sized. https://www.amazon.com/MicrOptix-VSA-100-Analyzing-Spectroph...

Ones that detect particular contaminants can be a lot smaller, especially if they are single-use.

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Re:Smell PGH lets you report weird smells in Pittsburgh by isoprophlex on Thursday June 22, 2017 @01:14PM (#14613726)
That's a spectrophotometer, not a GC/MS... Can you detect smelly airborne chemicals with this as well?
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Re:Smell PGH lets you report weird smells in Pittsburgh by sp332 on Thursday June 22, 2017 @01:41PM (#14613926)
Reading the description, it might be for liquids instead. Anyway it won't give as much information about the molecular components as a mass spectrometer, but you can still get a good idea if there are contaminants.
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