Serious question. How big is a fart molecule?

Serious question. How big is a fart molecule?

Placed under the microscope, even the dullest grain of sand develops a personality. So it goes with farts. (Or “flatulence,” as they say in the scientific literature.) Farts may seem largely interchangeable, but each one is special. Even just your own farts are a circus sideshow of intestinal gas: big ones, little ones, stinky ones, oddly fresh ones. There is not enough scientific evidence to say that no two farts are alike — but you can rest assured that they are a riot of diversity.

As a result, it’s impossible to say exactly how much space a generic fart takes up in the body. I can, however, tell you about the range of specific farts, as captured in scientific experiments. For instance, a 1997 study of 16 Americans found a volume-per-fart range of 17 milliliters to 375 milliliters.1 Imagine a bottle of nail polish — that’s a rough analogy for the volume of the daintiest of poots. Now imagine a can of soda. That’s the volume of a really big stinker. Your body is a wonderland.

But there are another couple of questions floating around this data. First, obviously, “How does one collect a fart?” And I’ll get to that in a bit. But second, and perhaps more important, is this: “Why study the gas volume of farts?” That’s a really interesting question if for no other reason than the fact that Dr. Michael Levitt, a researcher at Minneapolis Veterans Affairs and the grande sieur of fart research, doesn’t think there’s much value to the data. “It’s just physiological fact,” he told me. It’s interesting to know the volume of a fart, but it doesn’t have a lot of deeper meaning.

Hard to say.
They go through underwear and bluejeans quite well, but coveralls seem to funnel them up to your nose.

What you smell from a fart is methane, which is a gas.

Methane is odorless.

Methane is odorless.

Chest waders are the absolute worst.

Shocking but true.

"My farts don't stink."

What you smell from a fart is methane, which is a gas.

The disposable paper coveralls I used to keep the grease and crap of my clothes while cleaning equipment did a fairly good job of funneling too.

Ethyl Mercaptan to be exact.

Mine smell like roses.............



or so I've been telling the wife for 15 years or so.

Bed sheets too.

I went to high school with ethyl.

Bed sheets too.

I went to high school with ethyl.

What you smell from a fart is methane, which is a gas.

The three rules to know when working on the fish farm:

Water runs downhill.
Payday is on Friday
Don’t fart in your waders.

Fish don’t wear masks....

Nope, methane is clear and odorless (Wiki) which is why natural gas has Mercapton added to it so it can be smelled.

Wearing masks works best for robbing gas stations.

The masks we are all so dutifully wearing - whether commercial or home-made - are just about useless for stopping airborne virus. That goes for incoming as well as outgoing particles. That's because none of those masks seal airtight. That's why your glasses fog - your exhale is escaping unfiltered. So does the inhale.

We wear them because we are told to, because we will be denied service if we don't, or because we simply don't know any better. But not because they actually work.

The masks we are all so dutifully wearing - whether commercial or home-made - are just about useless for stopping airborne virus. That goes for incoming as well as outgoing particles. That's because none of those masks seal airtight. That's why your glasses fog - your exhale is escaping unfiltered. So does the inhale.

We wear them because we are told to, because we will be denied service if we don't, or because we simply don't know any better. But not because they actually work.

Yep.

More of a control issue than a good public health issue.

DF

Experiments by a team in Hong Kong found that the coronavirus’ transmission rate via respiratory droplets or airborne particles dropped by as much as 75% when surgical masks were used.

“The findings implied to the world and the public is that the effectiveness of mask-wearing against the coronavirus pandemic is huge,” Dr. Yuen Kwok-yung, a leading microbiologist from Hong Kong University who helped discover the SARS virus in 2003, said Sunday.

“Transmission can be reduced by 50 (percentage points) when surgical masks are used, especially when masks are worn by infected individuals,” he said.

I don't think so . if you fart thru 4 layers of clothing , somehow we can smell it and fart molecules are much larger than viruses

Please wear mask.

"Experiments by a team in Hong Kong found that the coronavirus’ transmission rate via respiratory droplets or airborne particles dropped by AS MUCH AS 75% when surgical masks were used."

Hamsters have very similar enzyme receptors to humans, which is why they were chosen as the test animals for Yuen’s experiment.

“Up to this stage, we do not have a safe and effective vaccine. What remains practical is still either social-distancing measures or wearing masks,” Yuen added.

Hamsters actually.

The masks we are all so dutifully wearing - whether commercial or home-made - are just about useless for stopping airborne virus. That goes for incoming as well as outgoing particles. That's because none of those masks seal airtight. That's why your glasses fog - your exhale is escaping unfiltered. So does the inhale.

We wear them because we are told to, because we will be denied service if we don't, or because we simply don't know any better. But not because they actually work.