Talk:Pyridine
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This article seems reasonably complete to me, certainly not a stub. Someone more experienced with the proprieties of wiki should make the change, if appropriate.
- I agree. Edited. Apocryphite 20:14, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] An amusing side-note....
http://sexcausescancer.ytmnsfw.com/ (Warning, may be considered NSFW)
Some YTMNDer and Wikipedian has reached a rather worrying conclusion about Vaginal lubrication and Pyridine... I'll quote both articles here if you don't want to go to YTMND.
From Pyridine:
Pyridine is a clear liquid with an odor that is sour, putrid, and fish-like.... Pyridine is a harmful substance if inhaled, ingested or absorbed through skin, it is known to reduce male fertility and is considered carcinogenic as well.
From Vaginal Lubrication:
The lubrication fluid contains water, pyridine, squalene...
Shouldn't this be worrying? AKismet 04:12, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
^^ There are other products with Pyridine as well, including urinary track infection relief meds. Ever wonder where the "side effects may include" comes from?
[edit] That SMELL...
Ever since a bottle of pyridine was knocked over in the laboratory where I work, my coworkers and I have been *very* interested in the awful stuff. I would say that the odor of pyridine is actually indescribable. I mean I'm at a real loss for words beyond saying that it smells really, really bad. It doesn't smell like garbage, excrement, or sewage (what I would consider the heavy hitters of bad smells), and neither does it have the smell typical of aromatic compounds, which I don't mind at all. It's definitely nauseating, but I don't think it smells anything at all like fish! Not even the most putrid rotten fish odor could compete with pyridine.
Oceanstater 22:45, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
I can only agree with you on this. It is absolutely nauseating! In the article it says "a sour smell", and I don't think that is remotely true. I would say that is smells like rotten crab or some other shellfish.130.225.245.182 20:05, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
this may not make sense, but to me pyridine has a smell that is sickeningly, nauseatingly sweet.... don't get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing enjoyable about the odor. it is sweet, but a sweetness that only makes you ill....
- Bofff! Thiols smell worse! (and there selenium analogues worse still...) Physchim62 (talk) 16:40, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
- The smell of both pyridine and thiols are both bad and equally undescribable. I'd never smelled anything like either of them until I worked with pyridine in a lab that contained some thiols in the fridge!! Maybe the article could say at what conc the human nose can detect pyridine as a way to get across how bad it is. K.murphy 09:39, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Missing or Incorrect Citation Details in References
In the References section, reference #2 is listed as "Sherman, A. R. 'Pyridine' in Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (Ed: L. Paquette) 2004, J. Wiley & Sons, New York. doi:10.1002/047084289."
This DOI number does not match anything in the DOI system. The Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (a.k.a. EROS) is published by Wiley (John Wiley & Sons), and as far as I can tell the last hardcopy version was published in 1995 and is listed by Wiley & Sons as ISBN: 978-0-471-93623-7.
There is also an online database now, also from Wiley, called e-EROS that is continuously updated. The Wiki article should provide the correct reference information. If obtained from the e-EROS database this should be noted, with the "last revision" date cited (and perhaps a link to the database web site?). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Betsy R. (talk • contribs) 20:27, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
