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Discover LudwigThe word "deodorize" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the process of removing or reducing unpleasant body odor with a special product, such as an antiperspirant. For example, "I like to deodorize after my morning workout."
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deodorize
verb
To mask or eliminate the odor of, or an odor in, (something).
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Milder oxidants (e.g., 3 percent hydrogen peroxide, made alkaline with sodium bicarbonate, or 2 percent aqueous potassium iodate) have been used to deodorize pets that have encountered skunks.
When Lutz asked him why he bought so much baking soda, an ingredient of crack ("You're not a baker, are you? You don't make cookies and muffins"), Ross said that he used it to deodorize his refrigerator.
In September, 1971, she published a five-thousand-word critique called "As I Listened to Archie Say 'Hebe' ... .. Hobson argued that Lear had attempted to "deodorize" bigotry, to make it safe and cute: among other things, Archie used words like "coon" and "yid," but he didn't say "nigger" or "kike".
This surprise led one panelist to recall that heating is part of the refining process that manufacturers use to deodorize raw oils.
While Ivanka is dangerous – as the New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum wrote, she's "made a conscious choice to deodorize the stink of her father's misogyny" – I believe most female voters will see through it.
During the eighteen-fifties, for instance, when disease was thought to travel through foul odors, activists successfully rallied the city to help deodorize the air by reserving more than seven hundred and fifty acres of Manhattan for the creation of Central Park.
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Oils obtained in high yield under such conditions are stronger in flavour than oils prepared by low-pressure expression, and the refining and deodorizing steps are required to improve palatability.
Another reason for the practice of deodorizing edible oils in Europe and America relates to differences in oil quality by Western and Eastern extraction techniques.
The improvement in yields more than compensates for the added costs of refining and deodorizing.
The deep-purple compound potassium permanganate (KMnO4) is used for disinfecting, deodorizing, and bleaching and as an analytical reagent.
The wool grease so obtained is refined, bleached, deodorized, and dried.
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