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Arsenic and its compounds often have a garlic-like odor when crushed or when scratched with a hard object.

Arsenic 2009

They recalled seeing thick smoke and smelling a strong odour in keeping with the garlic-like smell associated with white phosphorus.

Greg Mitchell: Evidence Grows That Israel is Using White Phosphorus in Gaza 2009

White phosphorus is a colorless substance with a garlic-like smell.

CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2006 2006

- It has carbide or garlic-like smell which serves as warning agent.

9. Pest control using fumigants 1996

Vomited matter luminous in the dark, bile-stained or bloody, with garlic-like odour.

Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

As_ {2} O. {3} + 12H = 2AsH_ {3} + 3H_ {2} O. Arsine is a gas with a peculiar garlic-like odor, and is intensely poisonous.

An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

The genus Marasmius may be known by the garlic-like smell peculiar to it, but it never has a mealy perfume.

Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin

If arsenic is present, a garlic-like odour is noticed in twenty four hours, due to arseniuretted hydrogen or an organic combination of arsenic.

Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

It occurs as metallic arsenic, which is of a steel-grey colour, brittle, and gives off a garlic-like odour when heated; as arsenious acid; in the form of two sulphides -- the red sulphide, or realgar, and the yellow sulphide, or orpiment; and as arsenite of copper, or Scheele's green.

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Besides ozone, I noticed the faint, garlic-like odour of phosphorus.

A Thousand Deaths 1899