How to Use odorant in a Sentence

odorant

noun
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  • Because natural gas does not have a smell, an odorant is added to it, to help alert people if there is a leak.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2022
  • On the other hand, nine of those 10 odorants for which dogs are clearly more sensitive than humans are carbolic acids.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
  • On the other hand, nine of those 10 odorants for which dogs are clearly more sensitive than humans are carbolic acids.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
  • Since research on humans hasn’t yet cleared our view up the nostrils, Mainland has begun studying the odorant molecules directly.
    — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
  • For example, Laska notes, the total number of odorants for which dogs have an established, lowest detectable threshold level is 15.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
  • For example, Laska notes, the total number of odorants for which dogs have an established, lowest detectable threshold level is 15.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
  • Researchers have managed to teach bees to differentiate between two odorants.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 July 2017
  • The agency installed a network of chemical detectors at the Speedway—precise sensors linked to high-accuracy wind gauges revealed how chemical odorants travel in plumes through the air.
    — Dan Dubno, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2019
  • Everything that has an odor releases specific chemicals, called odorants, into the air.
    — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 7 June 2018
  • Scientists have long known that animals recognize their relatives by their unique odorants, or familial smells.
    — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • That wouldn’t be possible if each odorant molecule had to be uniquely recognized by its own dedicated receptor.
    — Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The catch being that the odorants were chemically identical, and the only difference was that the hydrogen was replaced with deuterium (deuterium is hydrogen with an extra neutron).
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 July 2017
  • This tissue becomes inflamed, temporarily disrupting the ability of the olfactory neurons to signal the presence of an odorant.
    — John E. Hayes and Cara Exten, CNN, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Plus, many other natural repellents—unlike pyrethrum—work by activating multiple odorant receptors, and researchers still know very little about how those other receptors work.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 19 July 2021
  • Functional agonism of insect odorant receptor ion channels.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2011

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