Word: odorizes
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...Westinghouse put on the market a tiny electric lamp (3½ watts) which destroys dampness, mildew, smoke, cooking and perspiration odors by "exploding" the odor molecules with ultraviolet radiations, liberating ozone. Westinghouse claims the lamp is thrice as powerful as the bigger ozone lamp it introduced in 1945. Price...
...post office felt that Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's mail-order books on home treatment for cancer, heart trouble, arthritis and hay fever had a faintly phony odor. Called on to show cause why his books should not be barred from the mails, the 82-year-old musclebuilder, now in California, said the challenge had made him "feel ten years younger...
...scout bee cannot smell flowers at any great distance; its odor perception is about as sharp as a man's. But when it alights on a flower to which it has been attracted by sight, it is so close to the flower's scent glands that very faint odors are perceptible. Most flowers have "scent spots," which the bee feels out with the organs of smell on its antennae. The scent spots lead the scout to the cups where the nectar lies...
When the scout bee enters the hive, he says, it climbs to a section of comb and starts a stylized dance. Other bees gather around, caressing the scout with their touch-and-smell antennae. The scout bee's odor, picked up from the flower it has robbed, tells them what sort of flower they should look...
...floor it resembles the great hall of a medieval castle, and on the second floor there is a trophy room that looks like the grand council chamber in a movie version of Hamlet. The only thing which gives Payne-Whitney away as a place of athletics is the faint odor of perspiration which pervades the whole place...