Sentence examples for defensive spray from inspiring English sources

In addition, 2-butenethiol is found in the defensive spray of the skunk, 2-propanethiol (allyl mercaptan) is found in the breath of people who have eaten garlic, and furfurylthiol contributes to the aroma of fresh coffee.

Jack Birochak, a designer of defensive spray devices in Wayne, Pa., devised a low-tech launcher using pressurized air -- pumped up with a bicycle pump -- to lob a small pepper-spray grenade 60 or 70 yards.

He and his colleagues famously worked out the multistage weaponry of the bombardier beetle, which sequesters internal reservoirs of hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone, and will mix the ingredients together with the proper enzymes as needed in a reaction chamber, to generate a boiling blast of defensive spray that can be aimed at an attacker through a swiveling nozzle in its anus.

Application of the method to the analysis of a single defensive spray milking from an adult female walking-stick insect Anisomorpha buprestoides using a 1-mm high-temperature superconducting NMR probe revealed that it contains, in addition to glucose, two stereoisomeric terpenes, each with a dialdehyde and a diol in slow chemical exchange.

According to the Salisbury Post, the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education decided Monday that it would change prohibitive language surrounding defensive sprays, like mace, because they could be a useful tool for anyone walking into a bathroom, unsure of who might come in next.

Dave van den Bergh, playing as a holding, defensive midfielder, sprayed passes over the field and looked comfortable.

Scientists have long known that explosions in the beetle's pygidial glands a pair of abdominal structures that produce defensive secretions power its spray, but until recently the creature's tough exoskeleton had shrouded the blasts in mystery.

Similarly the threat display of the walking stick phasmid (Peruphasma schultei) is not a bluff: the insect sprays defensive dolichodial-like monoterpene chemical compounds at attackers.

Firearms lawyer Edward Burlew told VICE he believes non-lethal defensive tools like pepper spray should be legal in Canada.

Bring a cell phone, but remember a cell phone won't protect you, and small defensive weapon (like pepper spray) in case of an assault, but make sure that it really is an assault.

Women try to ensure their own safety by avoiding certain places, staying indoors after dark, dressing carefully, and carrying defensive weapons such as pepper spray and safety pins.