decomposition

Bodies found at a funeral home in varying states of decomposition had been "simply abandoned" and left "for nature to take its course", a court has heard.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

"This is because the whale may carry diseases that can also be transmitted to humans, and there may also be a risk of explosion," as decomposition creates large volumes of gases, it said.

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

Authorities have been at the Arroyo Grande home of Susan Flores in San Luis Obispo County this week, scanning the ground for any signs of human decomposition.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

A body was found in scrubland in 2007, the state of decomposition indicating it had been there for decades.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

It was a smell of general decomposition but one with universal dimensions, one that an athlete could identify until the day of his death.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Their approach involves clever decompositions of the cube circumscribing the bicylinder. 

From Scientific American ● Jan. 6, 2018

Although this method is not seen very often in textbooks, we present it here as an alternative that may make some partial fraction decompositions easier.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015

We obtain the same values for and using either method, so the decompositions are the same using either method.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015

So it's not a moment; it's a process that actually begins when the heart stops and culminates in the complete loss of the body, the decompositions of all the cells.

From Time Magazine Archive

But these chemical decompositions are attended by a corresponding change in the mechanical characters of the soil.

From Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Anderson, Thomas