Word: odorized
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When the wind is still, a strange and pungent odor rises over the pleasant resort city of Durban on the Indian Ocean. It comes usually from the tin-shanty slum of Cato Manor to the west, where, ever since the Union government forbade blacks to drink anything alcoholic other than the watery government beer served in municipal bars, Zulu women have been brewing a crude moonshine of their own. A high-power popskull made of methylated spirits, carbide, potato peels or just about anything else that will ferment, this local version of skokiaan (called gavine) is often the only source...
...Chinese silkworm moths have been known to home in on intended mates from as far away as seven miles. Since a female under a bell jar will stir nothing in males on the outside only inches away, biologists have concluded that the secret of her charm must be an odor-from a substance so strong that a few molecules send males fluttering into the wind, and so selective that only males of her own species are attracted...
Finally isolated, it turned out to be a yellowish, fatty substance with a subtle, not unpleasant odor of leather. Study of its chemical structure revealed a relatively simple formula: C10H30O- technically an alcohol. The million cocoons had yielded only a barely visible...
Frozen Box. A one-piece package for frozen foods has been developed by Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Replacing the cumbersome double package (wax covering over cardboard) now used to avoid odor mixture and freezer burn, the new package does both jobs with a single wax cardboard, which can be sealed with a cold adhesive...
...Odorless Odor Killer. A deodorant that has no smell of its own, tout kills any other odor by smothering it through a chemical reaction, will be put on the market soon by the McGraw-Edison Co. Used in a water solution, the chemical is now being distributed for use in hospitals and morgues by National Cylinder Gas Division of Chemetron Corp. Price: 90? for a 7-oz. aerosol...