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Odorant

Odorant meaning

Any substance that has a distinctive smell, especially one added to something (such as household gas) for safety purposes

Example sentences (6)

Lebel also notes that in natural gas, the odorant added often may not be strong enough to alert people to the leak.

The odorant that’s added to petroleum products leaked at the terminal Monday.

For example, stressed rats release odorant cues that cause other rats to move away from the source of the signal.

O Odorant substance that stimulates the sense of smell.

Situations in which an odorant that is added to natural gas can be detected by analytical instrumentation, but cannot be properly detected by an observer with a normal sense of smell, have occurred in the natural gas industry.

This is caused by odor masking, when one odorant overpowers the sensation of another.