Not to be confused with volume overload. Hypervolemia, or fluid overload, is the medical condition where there is too much fluid in the blood. The opposite condition is hypovolemia, which is too little fluid volume in the blood. Fluid volume excess in the intravascular compartment occurs due to an increase in total body sodium content and a consequent increase in extracellular body water.
The smell was put into natural Gas in the aftermath of a school explosion in New London Texas 1937. 300 students and faculty members lost their lives after the school exploded and was leveled when the trapped natural gas was ignited. The School was being fueled by gas directly from the near by oil wells.
Donât worry, because hereâs the thing: the more powerful the stench, the less likely it is to do harm. Indeed, the smell thatâs typically associated with natural gas is deliberately put in to warn you of its otherwise odorless presence â youâll call Con Edison before it all goes bang. In this case, it is not the thing that smells that will harm you, but the thing that doesnât smell. As a kind of perverse perfumery, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company offers 24 different compositions of sulfur compounds as part of its Scentinel line of gas odorants.