Nostrils
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IX A HALTSuddenly the mare slowed down as if her foot had stumbled in the dark; Meaulnes saw her head sink and rise twice; then she stopped dead, her
nostrils
close to the ground, appearing to sniff at something.
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You've got a long snout that has 200 million scent receptors in it, and you have wet
nostrils
that attract and trap scent molecules, and your
nostrils
even have slits so you can take big nosefuls of air.
Smell starts when you sniff molecules from the air into your
nostrils.
But even though we've all got the same physiological set-up, two
nostrils
and millions of olfactory neurons, not everybody smells the same things.
If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your
nostrils.
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