'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens

Re:'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens by marcan_42 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @09:30PM (#26161920)

Just for the record, VOCs are literally "anything organic that boils at less than 250°C" (in the EU).

Farts are full of VOCs. No, seriously, every time I fart the TVOC sensor in my air purifier goes nuts, as does the one in my air quality meter. It's almost like the thing is shaming me for it :)

I would encourage you to learn more about the different types of VOCs, and at which concentrations they are known to be harmful. You might be having true allergic reactions to some harmless VOCs. You might be having psychosomatic reactions to other VOCs. You might not be having reactions to some harmful VOCs at all. Lumping it all together into "VOCs" is not helpful.

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Re:'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens by randycupertino on Sunday February 21, 2021 @02:06AM (#26211489)

Wait a minute, so you're telling me when I was laughing with my husband about how we should fart in front of the new air purifier and see if the sensor went off and he dismissed me, rolled his eyes and called me juvenile THAT I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG?!?!?

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Re:'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens by forgotmypw17 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @04:00PM (#26242819)

I,m using a more restricted definition of synthetics which we didn,t evolve with.

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