Word: emit
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When substances this potent hit the sensory systems of a relatively unsophisticated animal, they pack a big behavioral wallop. Pheromones emitted by queen bees prevent other females from maturing sexually, ensuring that the queen's genes remain dominant. Among fish, scent markers released by females cause male sperm counts to quintuple overnight. When injured by a predator, some amphibians emit a compound that warns others of their species to keep out of harm...
Anyone who has run the department-store gauntlet, dodging spritzer-wielding salespeople, knows that smelling good is serious business. In the U.S. more than 1,000 fragrances emit a heady bouquet--$5 billion in annual sales. The scent of all that money, however, seems to have lured some unlikely folks into the fragrance business. Some of the more curious perfume personalities...
...charged particles manage to leak through. Some are trapped to form the Van Allen radiation belts that surround the earth. Others spiral down the magnetic field lines that project from the North and South poles. Energy unleashed by this disturbance excites atoms of nitrogen and oxygen, which in turn emit pulses of colored light. The result: an aurora...
...experts say Eldrick ("Tiger") Woods strikes a golf ball so hard that the sound it makes in flight is unique--a kind of whining swoosh, occasionally accompanied by the crack of a club head caving in. The balls that emit this signature sound routinely travel farther than those of any other tournament player...
...others, O.K. is only relative. Black branches of burn marks crisscross the child's body, and he cannot play outdoors because the sun's rays would further damage his skin. He breathes through a tracheotomy tube, and at the age when most children are beginning to talk, he can emit only a gurgle. At night he sleeps attached to a ventilator, a humidifier and a heart monitor. He has undergone surgery 12 times in the past 12 months...