[NewCandle] Gallium for Al H2O reaction rate

[Jones Beene]

Keith Nagel wrote:

> you get that awful smell? What is that smell?


Can't you tell a lye, or can't you tell why it is isn't lye?

Seriously - having grown up about 20 miles from a pulp mill (Bowaters), 
it commonly assumed that the smell is intrinsic to the chemical itself, 
and not a reaction product - why would it be anything else? ... wood 
pulp smells nice by itself ... or I guess I should ask, why would you 
think it was anything but the lye?