What does DMS stand for?

Dimethyl Sulphide

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Dimethyl sulphide varies in quantity -- so some areas do smell stronger.

SHE SMELLS SEA SMELLS

Bacteria produce volatile compounds that smell unpleasant, including hydrogen sulphide, methyl mercaptan and dimethyl sulphide.

Stomach ulcer bug may be behind bad breath

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Richardson's colleague, Dr Andrew Curson, has found that marine microbes are making dimethyl sulphide (DMS)--another greenhouse gas--at the rate of more than 200 million tonnes a year.

Beyond C[O.sub.2] and methane

Eventually, they produce a compound called dimethyl sulphide into the atmosphere which we think is involved in cloud formation.

Seen from space, the Milky Way of the sea; 100-mile cloud of white ...

But three others - allyl methyl sulphide, dimethyl sulphide and acetone - took longer to reach their peak and were still present in the breath 30 hours later, New Scientist magazine reports today.

GARLIC AND MUSHROOMS, STIRRED UP BY SCIENCE