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NOUN
- (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance
- in a decomposed state
- the analysis of a vector field
- the organic phenomenon of rotting
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
How To Use decomposition In A Sentence
- But in accordance with the idea that malaria is a product of paludal decomposition, the trees selected have almost always been the _eucalyptus_. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
- In this chapter, we give some operator inequalities and norm inequalities by means of spectral decomposition and functional calculus.
- As a result of this decomposition very minute bodies, to which the name corpuscles has been given, are projected from the radium atom with exceedingly great velocity. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
- In the first place, I must remark that these human remains, which are in my possession, are characterized like thousands of bones which I have lately been disinterring, by the extent of the decomposition which they have undergone, which is precisely the same as that of the extinct species: all, with a few exceptions, are broken; some few are rounded, as is frequently found to be the case in fossil remains of other species. On Some Fossil Remains of Man
- Head of the team from the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Professor Rainer Horn, is quoted by the Sunday Express as saying: The natural decomposition processes are being slowed down. Boing Boing: March 17, 2002 - March 23, 2002 Archives
- _Atropine_ can be formed by uniting tropine and tropic acid, the two decomposition products already noted. Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
- Methods of extraction 1) by heat alone: thermal decomposition silver oxide sliver + oxygen 2) by heating with carbon copper +carbon copper + carbon oxide dioxide Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- Thus, once again, a moment of rebirth occurs, a new shining nativity of a new soul, not as a physical entity vulnerable to decomposition, but a living memory to the immortal and indestructible nation.
- If, on the other hand, as was assumed in crystallography, a regular arrangement of the atoms or the molecules in a space lattice was the basis of the shapes of the natural crystals, then, according to estimates, the distances of the points of the lattice ought to be exactly of that order of magnitude that was required for the decomposition of X-radiation in a spectrum. Nobel Prize in Physics 1924 - Presentation Speech
- The residence time in the filtration chamber and the decomposition of the molten object are reduced because of the petaloid inner walls of the filtration chamber.