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odorant

(ˈəʊdərənt)
n
a material that has a strong smell, esp one that is added deliberately to a material that does not
adj
another word for odorous
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o•dor•ant

(ˈoʊ dər ənt)

n.
an odorous substance or product.
[1425–75; late Middle English: fragrant < Latin odōrant-, s. of odōrāns, present participle of odōrāre to make fragrant, derivative of odor odor; see -ant]
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Odorants mainly use two different routes for travel toward the olfactory epithelium, located orthonasally and retronasally.
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However, there is at present no research that characterizes the entire range of odorants and their correlation to microclimate variables in these systems.
Odorants, flavor compounds, and pigments begin to close the book, with the final few chapters addressing antinutritional or toxic organics naturally occurring in some foods, food additives, and potential contaminants of concern.
The spatially distributed arrangement of aesthetasc sensilla in these animals provides an unusual opportunity to determine the extent to which fractional regions of the receptor array contribute to the central representation of odorants. Furthermore, crayfish antennular flagella grow continuously throughout an animal's lifespan by adding annuli and sensilla at their base; this means that aesthetascs near the flagellum tip are the oldest, and in adult individuals a proportion of them, along with the distal annuli, are shed at each molt (Sandeman and Sandeman, 1996).
The researchers found that the almost unlimited variety of food smells is based on 230 key odorants and each foodstuff has its own odor code comprised of a core group of between just 3 and 40 of the 230 key odorants, in specific concentrations, so these small groups of odorous substances are what give all kinds of foodstuffs from pineapple to wine to roast meat their unmistakable aromas.
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