decomposition
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The dinosaur ended up in a salty marsh, where conditions slowed decomposition and helped preserve the fragile network of blood vessels.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 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
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
The process was efficient enough to prevent microplastics from forming during decomposition.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 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
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
Rain water more readily penetrates, carrying dissolved substances with it: biochemical decompositions also proceed.
From The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction by Harriett Bradley
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