Why ethyl mercaptan is added to liquid petroleum gas?

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Ethyl mercaptan is added to liquid petroleum gas to detect the leakage of the gas. The liquid petroleum gas is odourless and cannot be easily detected. But ethyl mercaptan has peculiar smell through which we can detect its smell.

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