Word: odore
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...delivery system for a widely available combination of chemicals - sodium cyanide, which is used as rat poison and metal cleanser, and hydrogen, which is everywhere. The combination of the two creates hydrogen cyanide, a colorless, highly volatile liquid that is soluble and stable in water. It has a faint odor, like peach kernels or bitter almonds. When it is turned into gas and inhaled, it is lethal. For years, figuring out how to deliver this combination of chemicals as a gas has been something of a holy grail for terrorists...
...over the past year alone, it remains costly, at a wholesale rate that ranges between $3.70 and $70 per lb., depending on the cut. The marbled tail meat is prized by connoisseurs, as is whale sashimi, which is eaten with grated ginger or garlic to mask the odor. "I've had the meat," says Miki Ikari, 30, an account manager in Tokyo, "and I wasn't impressed. It could disappear from the earth, and I wouldn't miss...
...strong, antiseptic, anesthetic odor of postmodernism clings to Apex Hides the Hurt, a sense that you're watching the shadow play of symbols of things and not the things themselves. There are things around that hurt--vacant late-capitalist follies, personal disillusionment, buried historical crimes. But Whitehead is unable or unwilling to reveal them...
...going to complain about the environment, you're not going to start with chocolate," she says. Of course, not everyone finds the sweet smell so enticing. Laura Jacobson, 22, who works about a mile east of the factory, says the chocolate odor can be foul in summer, when temperatures rise and "it mixes with the river smell. Ugh. It's nauseating," she groans...
...caller smells a gaseous odor emanating from the Center for Government and International Studies on Tuesday, Jan. 24. HUPD suspects a possible gas leak and phones University Operations and Cambridge Police Department for assistance. But in the end, no evacuations were needed. Apparently, it was just a bunch...