I know that there’s some kind of reason that iron in blood doesn’t act like iron standalone, but I forget why. However, it seems contradictory that it still smells like metal.
I know that there’s some kind of reason that iron in blood doesn’t act like iron standalone, but I forget why. However, it seems contradictory that it still smells like metal.
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Pennies (older ones) are made of copper, not iron.
Because hemoglobin has iron, and releases a metallic scent when oxidized by oxygen outside of your body
The smell isn’t from iron; it’s from a molecule called “1-octen-3-one”.
This is what’s used in super-niche perfumes to create “the scent of blood”.
The funny part I know exactly what smell you’re talking about.
I always thought it was just me.
becuase blood smells like metal because when it touches air, the iron in hemoglobin reacst with skin oily and forms different compound that smell metallic, it’s not the iron itself, but the reactions that creates the smell.