Sentence examples for curious substance from inspiring English sources

TASTELESS, colourless, odourless and painful, pure capsaicin is a curious substance.

In December 2008, The Economist wrote about the history and future of chilies:TASTELESS, colourless, odourless and painful, pure capsaicin is a curious substance.

The Smart Car-size spacecraft, which NASA calls the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, will take 30 days to get into orbit around the moon, spend the next 30 days checking its equipment and proceed with scientific work for 100 days, searching for water molecules in the atmosphere and gathering data about the curious substance known as lunar dust.

He watched as it transformed into a series of salts, oils, and assorted vapors, which preceded a curious substance that luminously fell from the retort's mouth into a pool of water.

So it's curious that the actual substance of these memories is left so vague.

She usually creates the same subject in various materials, curious about how different substances affect the final form.

doesn't work, and in many cases is even counterproductive because it makes kids curious about these "forbidden" substances.

Everyone's heard of the Placebo Effect -- that curious phenomenon where taking a substance that has no known medicinal value makes us feel better.

Barton and Walden were also curious about an N.I.H.-funded study investigating substance use and H.I.V.-risk behaviors among female and transgender sex workers in Thailand, and a $29,469 grant to researchers studying patterns of drug abuse in the Brazilian rave culture.

It also has the curious ability to undergo change into a chemically distinct substance known as heptachlor epoxide.

The curious reporter discovered it was an over-the-counter body-building substance, a form of anabolic steroid banned in other sports.