decomposition

Many of the bodies are still unidentified, owing to their advanced state of decomposition.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Rather than expecting microorganisms to break down materials that are naturally resistant to decomposition, scientists could develop plastics with chemical structures that make biological recycling possible.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

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

But pathologists soon realized that too many variables—from the humidity in the air to the type of clothing on the corpse—affect the rate of decomposition to allow a precise calculation.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

A large number of saline solutions are adapted to these decompositions, in which the metal is laid bare under a crystalline form.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various