| 11. | Natural gas is by nature odorless; gas companies add mercaptan so people can smell a leak.
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| 12. | In that process the disulfide bonds are reduced, typically using a mercaptan such as ammonium thioglycolate.
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| 13. | For example, the ethyl mercaptan ( ethanethiol ) has the formula C 2 H 5 SH.
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| 14. | In this way high mercaptan-laden gasoline is upgraded to meet certain country-specific specifications.
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| 15. | But mercaptan is one of the impurities that drops out of natural gas when it's cooled.
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| 16. | Four employees died of suffocation in a Houston, Texas accident involving leakage of nearly of methyl mercaptan.
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| 17. | In the underground mining industry, ethanethiol or ethyl mercaptan is referred to as " stench gas ".
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| 18. | The mercaptan-emitting scent glands are usually removed in pet skunks at about four weeks of age.
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| 19. | "' Perchloromethyl mercaptan "'is the organosulfur compound with the formula CCl 3 SCl.
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| 20. | The burning chemical was methyl mercaptan, or methanethiol, a flammable substance used in pharmaceutical and agricultural products.
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