Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.
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Oliver Sacks was a 20th-century British neurologist and writer. Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Read more on Wikipedia →