odorant
noun
odor·ant
ˈō-də-rənt 
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The hook is also shaped to minimize damage to the fish during removal.
To draw sharks to the drum line, each of the floats had a small metal cage to hold chunks of fish that would release odorants.
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ArsTechnica, 22 July 2025
On its own, natural gas is odorless, but a strong odorant is added to the gas to alert people in case of a leak.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
The researchers engineered some flies so that two types of light-sensitive ion channels were made in the antenna, allowing red and blue light to trigger the same nerve signals as an odorant would.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
By building up a picture of how the odorant reacts at these different temperatures, the response curves can be plugged into a machine learning algorithm to spot the patterns that relate to a specific odor.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2024
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ArsTechnica, 22 July 2025
On its own, natural gas is odorless, but a strong odorant is added to the gas to alert people in case of a leak.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
The researchers engineered some flies so that two types of light-sensitive ion channels were made in the antenna, allowing red and blue light to trigger the same nerve signals as an odorant would.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
By building up a picture of how the odorant reacts at these different temperatures, the response curves can be plugged into a machine learning algorithm to spot the patterns that relate to a specific odor.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Odorant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/odorant. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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