odorant
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of odorant
Example Sentences
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The result is a nose's worth of mature olfactory neurons, each of which bears on its surface only one odorant receptor.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023
The NTSB’s preliminary investigation also found that workers in both buildings had smelled rotting eggs, an odorant added to normally odorless natural gas, before the explosion.
From Washington Times • Oct. 7, 2023
Differences in the concentrations of an odorant sensed by each tine of a snake’s forked tongue help the snake home in on quarry it can’t see.
From Science Magazine • May 24, 2023
Testing also confirmed that the odorant additive Mercaptan was present in the gas line leading into the home.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2022
It is not known how the olfactory cells are fired by an odorant.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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