On: Family fight Samsung over fridge odour they say ca...

[avsteele]

That professor's statement was pretty silly.

Burning electronics does have a strong, distinct odor. If they are unfamiliar with that, its totally plausible that's all that they smelled.

Refrigerators are a few PCBs, a heat pump, a closed loop refrigerant, and a cooler. There really isn't anything especially exotic there.

[omega3 → avsteele]

Lead solder perhaps?

[HeWhoLurksLate → omega3]

Lead solder hardly smells at all, and if it does, it's more likely to be the flux that smells and gives you cancer.

[gruez → omega3]

Hasn't that been banned for decades because of rohs?

[bongodongobob → omega3]

What about it?