Sentence examples for fragrant substances from inspiring English sources

Thus benzene, toluene, and related hydrocarbons, while not particularly pleasant-smelling themselves, were classified as aromatic because they were obtained from fragrant substances.

My first stop was the National Institutes of Health's site at www.nih.gov, where I learned that aromatherapy (the use of fragrant substances to improve mood or health) is a complementary treatment used in conjunction with conventional medical approaches.

He was able to isolate from the essential oils a group of fragrant substances that he named terpenes, and he showed that most of these compounds belonged to the class now called isoprenoids.

The device contained 10 metal oxide semiconductors sensors with different sensitivities and selectivity for different fragrant substances (Figure 1a) [22].

(In most modern perfumes, however, the rare and fragrant substance has largely been replaced by synthetic materials).

Rocky lumps found eroding from ancient clay-rich sediments in Italy may be the first known fossils of ambergris, a fragrant and flammable substance produced in the intestines of sperm whales.

Rather than packing their menus with important dishes, these young chefs and restaurateurs, like Zak Pelaccio at 5 Ninth, Grace and Jack Lamb at Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar and April Bloomfield at the Spotted Pig, are offering accessible food -- food that puts substance over style, like meatballs fragrant with sage, robust squid stew, lemon gelato.

Perfume, fragrant product that results from the artful blending of certain odoriferous substances in appropriate proportions.

Turkish Spinach With Tomatoes and Rice: Not every tradition allows rice during Passover; in this fragrant dish there's just enough of it to add substance to the vegetables.

Some plant species bear glandular trichomes that secrete a series of lipophilic substances and proteins, and are distinguished for their medicinal, culinary, fragrant and insecticidal properties.

The technique, which has become a standard analytical tool in food and pharmaceutical laboratories, is especially useful for separating the components of naturally occurring substances, notably those found in animal and vegetable tissues called lipids and the volatile and fragrant components of plants and flowers known as terpenes.