Odorless and Rotten

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Odorless adjective - Having no odor.

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Rotten and odorless are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rotten" instead an adjective "Odorless".

Nearby Word: odor

Rotten adjective - Having undergone organic breakdown.

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Odorless and rotten are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Odorless" instead an adjective "Rotten".

Nearby Words: rottenness, rottenly

We started putting sulfur in the odorless gas a while ago (at least for house and car emissions) so that people would realize that they are in danger by the smell of rotten eggs.

Source: Series / 1000 Ways to Die
Inspired By: Sokka and The Mechanist's idea of adding the scent of rotten eggs to the gas to identify the source of the leak is similar to the real world process of adding ethanethiol to otherwise odorless LPG to make it detectable for humans.

Source: Recap / Avatar: The Last Airbender "The Northern Air Temple"

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