decomposition

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

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

To investigate how microorganisms digest biodegradable plastics, University of Konstanz biologists Harry Lerner and David Schleheck studied the entire process of microbial decomposition.

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

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

By "stable" we mean they possess considerable resistance to agencies, that, in the case of other salts, effect decompositions of those salts.

From The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association by Albert Shonk