odorant
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of odorant
Example Sentences
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The prevailing gene is the one that determines the cell's odorant sensitivity.
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
When it comes to Covid, for instance, some researchers initially suspected that the virus was killing the cells that transmit the odorant signal to the brain.
From Salon • Oct. 4, 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
Repeated exposure of an animal to the same odorant, in small doses, leads to great enhancement of acuity, suggesting the possibility that new receptor sites are added to the cells.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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