Can you smell heat?

[Rubycon]

You know the smell.

It cannot be described but when you smell it, you know something is HOT!

 

[SSP]

Yes. Like a hot soldering gun... or a heater. Probably just a chemical im inhaling but what eva.

 

[Ika]

Hmm... I don't think so. I think it's a combination of the smell of whatever is hot and the "temperature sensors" in your nostrils. Like when you smell a hot new soldering iron (I know, I know...), you know it's really hot, but I think it's a byproduct of the smell of the... iron?

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Kinda...? I think maybe the heat makes the nostrils warmer and I perceive that as a smell; or maybe I just associate the smell of things when warm as warmth itself... ow I made my head hurt.

 

[SmoochyTX]

You mean like when you turn the heat on after it's been off for a long time? Then yes.

Otherwise, something is either cooking, melting, or burning. Then yes to that too.

Or do you mean when you see a hot guy and he walks by with just that amount of cologne and a delicious back end? Then yes to that too.

 

[pray4mojo]

I can feel it..

The smell is probably something nearly burning.

 

[DrPizza]

You don't smell "heat", but when objects are hot, more molecules tend to move into the air.

 

[akshatp]

I can certainly smell "the heat" when my dad comes back from a run on a hot day... Although I like to call it really bad sweat/body odor.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

I sort of know what you are talking about. A perfect example is a car heater, there isn't a very distinct smell about it other than hot.

 

[feralkid]

Can you smell heat?


Absolutely.

Most people can also hear color, taste time and feel space.

Gotta go, I smell my phone ringing.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
You know the smell.

It cannot be described but when you smell it, you know something is HOT!

sex in the air?

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
You don't smell "heat", but when objects are hot, more molecules tend to move into the air.

It's a figure of speech obviously.

Just like you cannot smell or see electricity but you can hear and smell the effects of it.

Originally posted by: alkemyst

sex in the air?

This is not the love boat.

 

[SagaLore]

Can you smell heat?

Please tell me you're not talking about estrus.

 

[phisrow]

There are definitely a few scents that correlate strongly with heat.

 

[akshatp]

Originally posted by: phisrow
There are definitely a few scents that correlate strongly with heat.

This makes no sense..

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Please tell me you're not talking about estrus.

Noooo

 

[SViper]

I talked to my mother about it because I associated this smell with Christmas when the heater gets turned on. She just said that it's the dust burning that gets built up in the heating system all year. My mother doesn't have a Ph.D in anything, but the explanation sounds feasible enough.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: SViper
I talked to my mother about it because I associated this smell with Christmas when the heater gets turned on. She just said that it's the dust burning that gets built up in the heating system all year. My mother doesn't have a Ph.D in anything, but the explanation sounds feasible enough.

You don't have to have a doctorate to know a lot of things.

She's absolutely correct.

Accumulated dust over the summer months on heat exchangers and/or nichrome heating elements will give a smell when the call for heat goes out on a chilly autumn morning.

Lots of things have a normal operating temperature and an abnormally high operating temperature and will often release materials into the air which will alert us that something is wrong. A really overheated boiler is one example.

 

[potato28]

I feel heat, not smell...

 

[slag]

No, Rabbit, but I can smell fear....

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: potato28
I feel heat, not smell...

Well radiant sources are felt immediately.

For example I can put you in third row of a presentation that uses what we call motion-effect feedback. We'll stick to the heat part for this discussion.

In this example there is a high energy action scene with lots of fire and an explosion. Think of the whacko flamethrower guy in the beginning of Lethal Weapon 4. :Q

Since we're on a living ship @sea, SOLAS doesn't allow us to use propane (real fire!) for effects so we have to resort to tamer things like Christie projectors, smoke, silver screen, and lasers. To make the feeling more realistic (and believe me EVERYONE wants to know LOL) there is a complex hidden apparatus above and to the sides of the stage.

Here's how it works. Basically there are banks of huge quartz halogen lamps that are sleeved so no perceivable light wavelengths visible to the human eye escape. Yet the tungsten-halogen lamp puts out crazy amounts of IR. This is what you feel as heat. A huge bank of condensers is charged and ready at all times. When the effect is triggered by a special soundtrack in the feature, banks of mercury displacement relays connect the condenser banks (several kilo farads) directly to the quartz lamps. Heat is instantly produced and felt on the faces of the audience. The effect is just like if a real fireball were on the stage and it will make people sweat because of a nervous reaction. It's that real.

A full blown system can use a plethora of effects from misters, water canons, electro-hydraulic actuators (EHA), plasma squibs (pacemaker users please use the exit!), and so on.

I could go on but I'm starting to really get off topic here. :Q

 

[SoulAssassin]

<wiggum>Tastes like burning!</wiggum>




I'm disappointed it took this long for someone to post it.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn

This is not the love boat.

OMGPOORRED!

:beer: heheh

I can smell hot stuff too...tinned wires, insulation..if you smell it in a place you are planning to sleep it's usually not good.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn

Originally posted by: potato28
I feel heat, not smell...

Well radiant sources are felt immediately.

For example I can put you in third row of a presentation that uses what we call motion-effect feedback. We'll stick to the heat part for this discussion.

In this example there is a high energy action scene with lots of fire and an explosion. Think of the whacko flamethrower guy in the beginning of Lethal Weapon 4. :Q

Since we're on a living ship @sea, SOLAS doesn't allow us to use propane (real fire!) for effects so we have to resort to tamer things like Christie projectors, smoke, silver screen, and lasers. To make the feeling more realistic (and believe me EVERYONE wants to know LOL) there is a complex hidden apparatus above and to the sides of the stage.

Here's how it works. Basically there are banks of huge quartz halogen lamps that are sleeved so no perceivable light wavelengths visible to the human eye escape. Yet the tungsten-halogen lamp puts out crazy amounts of IR. This is what you feel as heat. A huge bank of condensers is charged and ready at all times. When the effect is triggered by a special soundtrack in the feature, banks of mercury displacement relays connect the condenser banks (several kilo farads) directly to the quartz lamps. Heat is instantly produced and felt on the faces of the audience. The effect is just like if a real fireball were on the stage and it will make people sweat because of a nervous reaction. It's that real.

A full blown system can use a plethora of effects from misters, water canons, electro-hydraulic actuators (EHA), plasma squibs (pacemaker users please use the exit!), and so on.

I could go on but I'm starting to really get off topic here. :Q

Whoa, is that even English?

 

[jakalsucks]

Ozone maybe? Isn't oxygen converted to ozone at high temperatures?