| While pigs are a fairly decent approximation of humans in such contexts, the study failed to detect two compounds, cadaverine and putrescine, usually found in decaying human cadavers. |
| The precipitate contains the picrate of trimethylenediamine, mixed with the picrates of cadaverine and creatinine. |
| Decaying meat produces its own peculiar scent molecules, I later learned, with names like putrescine and cadaverine. |
| The police have said a cadaver-sniffing dog recently taken there alerted investigators to the possible presence of cadaverine, the foul-smelling gas produced by decomposition. |
| It turns out that death, in odor form, is indeed straightforward: a couple of relatively coöperative naturally occurring chemicals, putrescine and cadaverine, are responsible for the characteristic smell of a decaying corpse. |
| The noxious gases putrescine and cadaverine get on your clothes too. |
