Definitions for "MERCAPTANS"
Keywords:  smell, sulfur, lees, skunky, unpleasant
Sulfur compounds resembling alcohols, but with the oxygen of the hydroxyl group replaced by sulfur. Often found in petroleum products, mercaptans have a particularly strong and disagreeable odour.
A smell resulting from too much sulfur. Smells like garlic or rubber.
A group of organic chemical compounds containing an SH group having distinctive odors in small concentrations is often added to natural or LP gases to warn of leaks. Compare ODORANT.
Keywords:  thiols, see
See thiols.