decomposition

"However, maximum decomposition is not desirable in every ecosystem," says co-project leader Franz Bender, head of the agroecological assessments team at Agroscope.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

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

According to Sheldrick, the mother had been dead for more than a day or longer, based on the level of decomposition.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

The simplest of these is methane, or marsh gas, formed in nature by the bacterial decomposition of organic matter under water.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

On this account, persons residing in a new country should wear such clothing next the skin, to guard them from the noxious miasms caused by extensive vegetable decompositions.

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher