can you smell heat?

Answer 1

you don't but you can feel the heat going up your nose.

Answer 2

if you see the heat bouncing/radiating off the road and can smell the road compound then yes because you have a visual of radiation plus the smell together but this is the combined process sent to the brain

but no you cannot smell heat its self

there will be something burning producing the heat wether gas chemical or a substance of some sort and this is what you can smell not the heat its self
and electrical heat is the current heating the components not the smell of heat

light bulb =light +heat+sound /smell is either a elecrical transformer and the componets staying hot or the dust particles smouldering on the surface of the light bulb

engine=motion+heat+sound /smell is the petrol being burnt
and creating carbon dioxide after air is used for combustion

each of the above show the things that produce heat but show what you can smell not that heat can be smelt

Answer 3

Even if there is nothing cooking, I can smell heat. Heated air aggravates the atoms and molecules within it, making it smell different than the same air at a lower temperature. However, I'm a supersmeller, and have the ability to pick up on these little changes.

Answer 4

Heat is energy. You can't smell it. You can experience a reaction to excessive heat, for example when you sniff close to a charcoal fire, your nose is not smelling heat but burning nose hair. You can say I can always tell when the furnace goes on but not from the heat 'smell." You smell dust burning or other stuff cooking off due to the heat. Your nose 'smells" stuff by using chemical sensors. They are used to operating at normal living temperatures. Anything above or below that may give you a false sense of smelling 'heat"

Answer 5

You can smell the molecules RELEASED by heat. For instance, if you have a dry orange peel and heat it, you'll smell the scent of the orange in the molecules released by the heat, or the smell of rust from an old steam pipe, but heat itself has no inherent smell. The primary sense which detects heat is tactile, not olfactory.

Answer 6

Indirectly, yes. Heat magnifies the smell of things - you can smell apple crumble when it's in the oven all through the house but only up close when it's cold. So really you're just smelling things that the heat has made warmer.

Answer 7

Heat is energy, as are things like electricity, motion (kinetic) energy, chemical energy, etc.
Energy is not a substance, not a physical object, so it cannot be smelt. You could not have a jar of energy.
The effects of the increased energy of objects (hotter objects) can be smelt, for example the smell of soup is more noticeable as it is warmed up.
Our sense of smell is achieved by specialised receptors which respond to the molecules of certain chemicals. When stimulated they generate a nerve inpulse which passes to the brain which interprets the sensation.
Few molecules from cold soup escape into the air to reach our nose. As the soup is heated the soup molecules become more 'energetic' and move faster. More and more of them escape into the air and reach our smell detectors.
You have not smelt heat however.

Answer 8

No:
Odor, what is smelled, that is, the chemical compounds themselves that are detected in very low concentration by the sense of olfaction.

In physics, heat, symbolized by Q, is defined as energy in transit. Generally, heat is a form of energy transfer, sometimes called thermal energy, associated with the different motions of atoms, molecules and other particles that comprise matter when it is hot and when it is cold.

Answer 9

Heat is a form of energy usually exhibited when molecules or atoms are vibrating vigirously in a fixed position.

Smell works like a sort of key and lock mechanism, if one of the receptors (lock) identifies a molecule (key) it sends a signal to the brain and it is translated as a smell.

So the two are definitely not related...

Answer 10

no u can smell the effects of heat though

Answer 11

Yes - especially if it is artificial heat i.e. heater something overheating. Not sure if you can smell the heat outside though. If its nice tomorrow I will have a sniff for you!