But the scientific evidence shows that the smelt exist at many different salinity levels.
The gas is known as the silent killer because it cannot be seen or smelt.
Japanese speculators, says Mr Koike with a flick of his nose, smelt easy money.
An irking irony is that the smelt's biggest killer is the wastewater that Sacramento dumps into the delta.
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For people who think bad news was good news, they smelt a story.
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Sterlite, which is 54%-owned by Vedanta, has always insisted that the plant used a smelt process that was internationally accepted.
It smelt like something had died and I felt sorry for people walking on the street trying to get to the shops.
Groceries are felt, smelt and recommended before any actual purchase is made.
No one has been able to demonstrate that the location of this mixing point has anything to do with the abundance of smelt.
Eventually, sword makers started using iron, and when they discovered they could hammer carbon into the smelt, they'd make swords out of steel.
Spencer Bachus, a Republican congressman who leads the congressional sub-committee that oversees the fund, smelt a political rat and quickly began to investigate.
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Regulations to protect smelt from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta water pumps have created a California water shortage, which is particularly acute in the Valley.
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The principal proponent of the smelt plan is a federal biologist who supported his claim with a chart that used one data set on both axes.
Like most of his compatriots who worked the city underground, Mr. Gasnick had taken a variety of fish over the years including pickerel, carp, goldfish, smelt, catfish and eels.
The Delta is a tidal estuary, with changing salinity that has produced a diverse ecosystem including the Delta smelt, a small fish found only there, and the Chinook salmon.
Its idea was to move the point at which salt and fresh water mix in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to a place that they opined was ideal for the smelt.
Hours after the shooting at the Leopold Cafe, a cult city cafe and a favourite hangout of foreigners and locals alike, the place smelt of stale beer and bleaching powder.
The fumes could be smelt throughout Cornwall and with the bombers flying low making their runs to the wreck site one could be forgiven for thinking that a version of black hell had arrived.
In fact, the feds were forced to admit in court that their analysis failed to include 60% of the smelt population that is in an area that would be completely unaffected by the proposed action.
He loathed the feminists and black-power activists he came across in America in the late 1960s and 1970s, smelling in their affection for group rights and their willingness to use intimidation the same intolerance he had smelt in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.
Its reaction with the odour molecules changes a detector's electrical resistance, and this signal is fed into a neural net (the closest that computer technology has got to imitating the pattern-recognising abilities of networks of nerve cells) to work out what is being smelt.
When I first came across Accelera's yachts at a boat show in Hong Kong in May 2011, the vessels did not look out of place in the marina full of Italian and British-made yachts, but the interior smelt synthetic and compared poorly to the richly hued timber and buttery leather used by the European brands.
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