Sentence examples for pleasant odour from inspiring English sources

His limbs were flexible and his body "gave off a very pleasant odour".

Pure aniline is a highly poisonous, oily, colourless substance with a pleasant odour.

The American Cicuta maculata, known as musquash root, or beaver poison, has potato-like tubers with a pleasant odour; the tubers as well as the leaves are poisonous.

This oxide, which is a colourless gas with a mild, pleasant odour and a sweet taste, is used as an anesthetic for minor operations, especially in dentistry.

The leaves and underground stems (rhizomes) of some Asarum species give off a pleasant odour when bruised, and dried rhizomes are sometimes used as a substitute for ginger.

Pure biphenyl is a colourless crystalline solid with a pleasant odour; it is insoluble in water but soluble in ordinary organic solvents.

Whatever the age, no significant correlations were found for pleasant odours.

Many simple esters are responsible for the pleasant odours of fruits and flowers.

Carboxylic acid esters of low molecular weight are colourless, volatile liquids with pleasant odours, slightly soluble in water.

Many aldehydes have pleasant odours, and in principle, they are derived from alcohols by dehydrogenation (removal of hydrogen), from which process came the name aldehyde.

They found, as they report in Experimental Biology, that the animals spent an average of five seconds breathing air scented with lemon, jasmine or cinnamon, all pleasant odours from a human point of view.