SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0138
Cold Metal Rail
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Character EDITORIAL
A cold metal rail gives a sharp, faintly metallic impression, more felt than smelled, with a clean, mineral tang close to keys or loose change.
Words: metallic, cold, sharp. Families: Wood, earth and stone.
States: outdoors (EDITORIAL). A state says how an entry is met, such as wet, aged or roasted. It does not create a new smell, and it adds no scientific fact by itself: states marked EDITORIAL come from the entry's own records, and only those marked VERIFIED are reported by a VERIFIED claim.
Met in: Station.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- The metallic smell of touched iron (CLM-IRON-001). Dietmar Glindemann, Andrea Dietrich, Hans-Joachim Staerk & Peter Kuschk, The Two Odors of Iron when Touched or Pickled: (Skin) Carbonyl Compounds and Organophosphines, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2006.
Cite
SmellBook. (2026). Cold Metal Rail (revision 4, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:cold-metal-rail. https://smellbook.com/smells/cold-metal-rail
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