Random Thoughts

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

why don't metals smell?

(and please don't say because they don't have noses...)

Good personal hygiene?

Actually, it's because metals don't (generally) give off particles.  When you smell anything - bacon, coffee, candles, your pits - it's because little bits of whatever-it-is are getting in your nose and giving the olfactory receptors something to do. But you CAN smell metallic compounds, like iron oxide. Why?  Because the compounds are in a state that gives off particles.

Boru