Re:Vegetable Oil for Lubricating Chainsaws (2008)
by eutectic on Saturday December 04, 2021 @10:01PM
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Urea doesn't smell like anything much. Leave it long enough and it breaks down to make ammonia, which does.
Re:Vegetable Oil for Lubricating Chainsaws (2008)
by vixen99 on Sunday December 05, 2021 @06:36AM
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Most people can't taste it at all. And let's celebrate its 'invention' by the mammals so many million years ago as a brilliant solution to the problem of how to temporarily store and then excrete nitrogen in a harmless way as against the uric acid route used by birds and reptiles. People who have a test for the nasty H. pylori bug swallow a solution of urea and find it tasteless as far as I'm aware.
Re:Vegetable Oil for Lubricating Chainsaws (2008)
by BoorishBears on Saturday December 04, 2021 @11:42PM
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You mean like leave it under a hot mainframe?
Or expose it to warm temps in a lot of industrial processes?
It's a distinction without meaning, urea based products like DEF end up smelling like pee/ammonia. Laypeople usually specifically compare it to a cow urine smell
If you have 0 ideas about what it is, and piss seems improbable, I could see the confusion