Corrected entry: When Holmes and Watson enter the lab of the 'midget chemist' that aided Lord Blackwood with his illusions, Holmes declares the room "smells of sodium phosphate, among other aromas." Sodium phosphate is neither an aromatic compound, nor does it have a smell.
Noman
20th May 2010
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Correction: Ammonium sulfate has no odor; at least I never smelled any odor from any bottle of ammonium sulfate I ever opened (which is what another chemist would expect). Even if it did have an odor, it would smell like most of the ammonium compounds that do have an odor; thus, ammonium carbonate and ammonium phosphate smell identical (you cannot differentiate most ammonium compounds on the basis of odor alone).
Was this meant as a reply to the other correction? It seems to have nothing to do with the entry.
It is a combination considering the entry about the odour of ammonium phosphate and the correction saying that Sherlock Holmes really said ammonium sulfate instead of ammonium phosphate.
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Correction: He does not state Sodium Phosphate. He said "Ammonium Sulfate", which does have a smell.