here's a nice question...why is it when you pass wind it stinks.?

Question

it's in the weather section....Wind lol

Answer 1

Because all the products of digestion are broken down into
poop [ stool ] and gas. The gas consists of various chemicals, many having a foul smelling aroma.
When they come in contact with your nasal membranes, you perceive them as 'stinky', or 'ripe'.
PS: yep, when you smell it, you actually have minute amounts of other people's s**t in your nose! And aren't you sorry you asked this question!

Answer 2

A scientific name for a fart is flatus or flatulence.

The word fart is just one of many different terms used to describe the release of gasses from the human body. Other popular names for farts or farting include: gassers, stinkers, air biscuits, bombers, barking spiders, rotten eggs, and wet ones. You can pass gas, break wind, blast, beef, poof, rip one, let one fly, step on a duck, and cut the cheese.

Farts can be stinky, wet, loud, or silent but deadly. Pee-eeew!!!

Did you know?
On the average, a healthy person farts 16 times a day.
Hey guys, don't be fooled by girls who tell you that they never fart. Everyone farts, including girls. In fact, females fart just as much as males.
Many animals fart too. Cats, dogs, and cows. Elephants fart the most.
People fart the most in their sleep.
Farts that contain a large amount of methane & hydrogen can be flammable.

Answer 3

First of all, methane is an odorless gas. In fact they have to put odorant in methane to make it smell at all, for safety reasons. So it is untrue that methane is the culprit.

When you "pass gas", it smells because of bacterial action that produces sulfur and nitrogen rich compounds such as mercaptans, skatole, indole, and of course the inorganic gas hydrogen sulfide (also called the rotten egg gas).

Answer 4

S**t stinks as a result of the products of bacterial action. Bacteria produce smelly, sulfur- or nitrogen-rich organic compounds such as indole, skatole, and mercaptans, and the inorganic gas hydrogen sulfide. These are the same compounds that give farts their odor.

Answer 5

Methane stinks.

Answer 6

Internal(infernal) fermentation . Creation of methane in the digestive processes.

Answer 7

It only stinks because of the sensitivity of your olfactory nerves in your nose. If those nerves were severed. you wouldn't have a clue.

Answer 8

Huh? Mine don't stink. ;)

Why is this question in the "weather" category?

Answer 9

It contains methane gas which smells.

Answer 10

it all depends on the food you eat , more healthy food the better , big mac's etc, rubbish food make stinky poo's