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Would like to know what kinds of gases are emitted. Is it really methane, or is that a myth? --RjLesch
- A simple experiment with baked beans and a match should convince you that it's methane :) --Robert Merkel
- The explosive component may be methane, but the offensive part for most carivores and omnivores's output spells like Hydrogen Sulphide, H2S.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=flatulence
It's so sad that Misplaced Pages's article isn't on the first few pages of the "flatulence" search results! :-) --LMS
Flatulence has SFA (Sweet Fuck-All, do we need that too?) to do with the nature, chemical composition, or sniffability of gasses released.
I humbly suggest:
Gas released from the latter end of a consumptive's alimentary canal.
- Putting on my (dusty) medical doctor's cap - I disagree. The gas released is of significance, it says a lot about the diet of the animal involved and in humans can be a diagnostic aspect in certain gastro-intestinal disorders. Plus the gas involved is a direct consequence of the microbiology of the GIT, so it relates to bacteriology. We had an entire lecture on it during second year physiology (!) (If I could remember anything I'd write the article myself) - MMGB
- I just wish I could track down the New Scientist news article from 25 or more years ago where someone's excessive flatulence problem was solved when they analysed the gases. It was mostly CO2, from which, by a chain of reasoning I don't recall, they concluded he should cut down on dairy products. The report said it worked...
- Plus of course "consumptive" means "infected with tuberculosis". --Paul Drye
- My handy dandy dictionary would say that you're being too exclusive: consumptive - tending to consume, destructive, wasteful. Just for fun, btw, consumptive in your sense specifically means tuberculosis that affects the lungs. --Colin dellow
Not all cultures consider flatulence an embarassing or guiltily amusing subject: people from the Punjab, in my experience, consider flatulence no more amusing or embarassing than sneezing. This may well be true of other cultures: are there any other world-wide Wikipedians with examples of cultures that smiply do not give a toss about flatulence?