decomposition

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

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

"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

Cardan gives me a significant look as she explains decomposition, rot.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

The leaves of plants which absorb both the carbonic acid and the aqueous vapour of the air, answer to the cells in which our decompositions took place.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall