Why does lighting a match after you use the bathroom get rid of the odor so well?

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1. It only masks it. Mythbusters tested this one.
2. Because the smoke eats up the gas fumes.
3. The sulfur in match rids the smell.
4. never heard of that...
5. Never thought about it. Probably the sulfur in the match, I would guess. You go a lot?
6. Most people like the smell after i'm done in the bathroom..... No match needed........
7. The sulfur nuetralizes the smell.
8. because it burns down your bathroom and the burn odor covers up the other odor.
9. LOL are you seriouse?? I belive it is supposed to burn the methan gas produced during ur visit.
10. i never thought about it but it would have to be the sulfur
11. At lit match produces sulfer. The sulfer gets rid of the smell immediately.
12. Mythbusters proved it doesn't
13. The sulfer in the match absorbs the gases.
14. Because it scares you so bad that the room's going to blow up... you forget how bad it stinks.
15. the sulpher smell covers up the poo smell
16. I agree with Evo...
17. the salfer reacts with the molecule's of the gas's and masks the odder till it dissipates .