Sentence examples for odorous from inspiring English sources

Umande and the British charity Practical Action have devised a solution that turns the mountains of odorous human waste from a problem into an asset.

AS YOU get off the plane at Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire's former capital, the first thing to hit you is the heat heavy, humid, odorous.

The city itself consists mostly of rather odorous refineries and endless tangles of pipelines, vents and ducts connecting them.

It also was tacky, odorous, and perishable.

These glands secrete odorous substances that may serve as species or sex recognition signals (pheromones).

Thiols are among the odorous principles in the scent of skunks and of freshly chopped onions; their presence in petroleum and natural gas is objectionable because they have disagreeable odours, interfere with catalysts used in refining processes, and produce sulfur dioxide upon combustion.

Most female insects secrete odorous substances called pheromones that serve as specific attractants and excitants for males.

Their means of defense are the emission of an odorous secretion from large anal glands and the ploy of rolling up, presenting erected scales to the enemy.

Oil of turpentine is a colourless, oily, odorous, flammable, water-immiscible liquid with a hot, disagreeable taste.

The odorous principle of musk is muscone (muskone), or 3-methylcyclopentadecanone.

A team from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom won the second prize of $60,000, with a system that would turn human waste into a non-odorous, hygienic form of bio-charcoal.