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decomposition

[dee-kom-puh-zish-uhn] / ˌdi kɒm pəˈzɪʃ ən /


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Whether a location was a garden, meadow, cultivated field or lawn explained differences in decomposition better than most of the soil characteristics the researchers measured.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

"The vast majority were uncovered and in varying states of decomposition," he added.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

During the fourth decade of warming, they observed that stable portions of soil organic matter, once believed to resist warming mediated decomposition, also began to break down.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

There may also be a risk of explosion, it added, because of large volumes of internal gas caused by decomposition.

From BBC ● May 16, 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

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

From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015

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

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

These troubles are due to the production of toxic compounds, in the main, probably caused by bacterial decompositions.

From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Edwin George Hastings




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