decomposition
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In forests, peat is an accumulation of spongy, highly flammable, carbon-rich material formed over time through the decomposition of plant matter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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
Brian Eckenrode, a retired FBI forensic scientist and expert in human decomposition, joined them in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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
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
Nature has dispensed the first necessary of life with a most niggard hand, those pools which have not a constant supply of running water soon become adulterated by various decompositions of organic and inorganic matter.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
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