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🐏ram🐏 :
The smell of rust does not come from the iron inside your body. The scent is actually a chemical reaction that happens on the surface of your skin. 1. Metals Are Scentless: Pure iron or rust cannot evaporate into the air, meaning they have no smell on their own. 2. The Skin Reaction: When you touch iron or rust, moisture and acids in your sweat instantly break down the metal. This leaves behind unstable iron ions (Fe2+) on your skin. 3. Creating the Odor: These iron ions react with the natural oils (lipid peroxides) on your fingertips. The reaction breaks the oils down into volatile organic molecules, specifically a chemical called 1-octen-3-one. 4. Why It Smells Like Blood: Blood is packed with iron-rich hemoglobin. When you touch blood or it gets on your skin, the iron in the blood triggers the exact same breakdown of your skin oils, creating the same 1-octen-3-one molecule. Ultimately, you are smelling your own chemically altered skin oils, which your brain registers as "blood" because both iron metal and real blood trigger the exact same reaction when they touch human skin.
2026-10-24 01:42:23
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Tadej🍁 :
because we have iron in our blood
2026-10-22 14:27:47
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•~𝒴𝓊𝓀𝒾 𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈~• :
Rust smells like blood because iron reacts with oils on your skin to create 1-octen-3-one, a compound that also forms when blood is exposed to air. Our noses are super sensitive to this smell—it evolved to help us detect injuries or danger! So that metallic scent is actually a chemical warning signal humans have relied on for thousands of years.
2026-10-24 02:06:13
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How do you know the smell of blood
2026-10-24 00:15:43
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The Bobo :
blood smells like rust cuz of the iron in your blood
2026-10-22 14:26:32
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helicity :
i drank blood
2026-10-24 01:43:23
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rux_mm2 :
also tastes like it
2026-10-22 15:24:29
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ivanx8497 :
r we genuinely devolving
2026-10-22 15:24:57
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🦸♂️ :
idk
2026-10-24 08:45:05
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𝒜𝓃𝒹𝓇ℯ𝒾✞ :
No it dont
2026-10-22 15:26:01
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