Eli5: after having a number 2 the toilet will stink. In the morning it doesn’t stink anymore. Where does the stink go?

Question

Eli5: after having a number 2 the toilet will stink. In the morning it doesn’t stink anymore. Where does the stink go?

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

There’s a terrible truth I haven’t seen mentioned yet.

If you can smell something, there are particles of it in your nose. (Think of that next time you pass a potra-potty.) When a smell goes away it means those particles have disipated enough that your sense of smell can’t detect them anymore.