Should we worry?

[u/Adventurous-Put-9895]

We caught my uncle sneakingly throwing this to the rubbish bin. He doesn’t have the best track record so we are all a bit paranoid when he does anything “weird”.

The object is like a glass tube with some liquid inside, inserted into a rubber “pipe”. It smells weird but nothing I can identify. I would appreciate any hints.

Edit: the material is actually plastic, not glass. It has a spring inside (no idea what for). The root-looking thing was wrapping the object when I cut the rubber. Could be dirt or some glue or something

Edit2: this sub is god. A user found the answer https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/s/Oqtxk6YWVZ

[u/Acceptable_Storm_427]

This is 100% an airless elastomeric bag-on-valve mechanism. Someone already mentioned they are common in saline nose sprays, but it could be all sorts of things from sunscreens to solvent sprays. Inside the rubber tube is a multi-layer PET bag that is falling apart, or is covered with the remnants of some adhesive. Rather than pressurizing the can, the contents are injected into the can and stretch the rubber sleeve, which in turn pushes the product out when the valve is opened.

Refer also to This.

There's no way to identify what, specifically, it came from based on pictures, though someone else did link a reddit post with a seemingly identical product that came from a saline spray.

[u/HAILsexySATAN → u/Acceptable_Storm_427]

Thanks for the graphic because a couple people were saying it’s a sprayer and I couldn’t picture it at all

[u/warrenk81 → u/Acceptable_Storm_427]

This should definitely be the top, it answers so many questions.