composition
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When the tissue breaks apart, the microbial taxa living within it spread into the surrounding water and change its nutrient composition.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
The agency said samples of the foamy substance, as well as soil and water from a nearby stream, had been collected for laboratory tests to determine their composition and potential environmental impact.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
How does its composition relate to the conventions of portraiture and genre painting?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Greater diversity is generally considered a feature of a resilient and healthy gut microbiome, although the ideal microbial composition can vary between individuals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
“So in an unstable composition, I could have Lil floating away to New Zealand.”
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
Other compositions on the album draw on memories of Port Talbot, childhood visits with his grandfather, the cinema that first caught his imagination, and the people closest to him.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
When Porter includes people in his compositions, they take on a psychological charge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Last cycle, seven states had their most expensive judicial elections ever, including Montana and Kentucky, states with partisan compositions more like Kansas.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
They also tested different crustal compositions and temperature conditions before calculating how much fractured, water permeable crust each impact produced.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
"Oh, I passed English all right. It was mostly literature, though. I only wrote about two compositions the whole term," I said.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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