How to Use odorant in a Sentence

odorant

noun

• 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
• Human body odor may result from the breakdown of precursors into a pungent odorant by skin bacteria….
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2010
• 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
• This is probably because our odorant receptor variants are quite ancient, with the mutations predating the relatively recent divisions between Asian and European and African populations.
  — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
• Functional agonism of insect odorant receptor ion channels.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2011

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024