We can see oil discoloring the ocean, blackening coastlines and covering wildlife, but carbon dioxide is colorless and odorless.

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Well many believe that vodka is a colorless, tasteless, odorless spirit (except for the ethereal qualities), but in reality vodka DOES have flavor!

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To compensate for this, egg producers in the US commonly used to spray eggs with a thin layer of odorless, colorless mineral oil.

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Invisible and, often odorless, green leaf volatiles emitted from vegetation act as a defense mechanism, communicating to other foliage that danger is near.

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CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle.

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Carbon monoxide is a gas which is odorless tasteless and colorless.

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There they were exposed to bacteria which now had the job of breaking the sugar into succinic acid, a colorless, odorless substance that is heavily used in the food industry as a sweetener but can also be used in the production of a wide variety of materials, including medicines, bioplastics and even laundry detergent.

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