Sentences with phrase «odor molecules on»

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For example, based on the perception of the hundreds of odorant molecules found in coffee, the piriform cortex would be able to recognize a single odor, that of coffee.

This hypothesis is also based on the assumption that for the ancestors of recent insects, the ability to detect odor molecules in the air rather than dissolved in water was of vital importance.

The scientists began by building a database of 1,500 odor - producing molecules, cataloging 1,664 different traits — their size, the strength of the chemical bonds between their atoms, and so on.

The farther apart the molecules were on the yardstick, the easier it was for people to tell them apart by their odor.

By giving different odor molecules a place on the yardstick, we can distinguish fine gradations among them.

C. elegans has the ability to distinguish between hundreds of different odors due to a range of molecules — odorant receptors — on the surface of a cluster of neurons at the tip of its head.

From molecule to mind: an integrative perspective on odor intensity.

In truth, however, if a dog or cat urinates on carpeting, and the urine gets into the padding or even all the way into the floorboards underneath, then more cleaning product must be used — whether it's green or not — so it can soak down deep enough to reach all the odor molecules.

the always «on» hood acts in eliminating odors and pollutants from organic molecules suspended in the air like cigarette smoke and smells from cleaning supplies.»