putrefaction

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• A slight quantity of air, however, is sufficient for putrefaction, which is a powerful deoxydizing process that extracts oxygen even from the roots of plants. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles
• I already knew my hand had to be decomposing without circulation, but I wasn't sure how fast the putrefaction had advanced.
• Burrowing behind the putrefaction that lines the intestinal walls, they consume and destroy harmful microorganisms.
• Man is not pure for he is a worm, hatched in putrefaction, and therefore odious to God. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
• The intestine also is provided with glands that pour out a juice known as the _intestinal juice_, which, although not very active in digestion, helps to melt down still further some of the sugars, and helps to prevent putrefaction, or decay, of the food from the bacteria [6] which swarm in this part of the tube. A Handbook of Health
• The ever-present bacteria in the stomach are thus permitted to attack the protein and putrefaction commences, rendering nutrients in the protein food largely useless to you and producing toxic wastes and foul gases, including such poisons as indol, skatol, phenol, hydrogen sulphide, phenylpropionic acid, and others. The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity
• Pausing for a moment before it strode forward, one of the five monsters spoke, the stench of putrefaction heavy upon its breath.
• Expert: This kind of shrimp has been putrefaction.
• Destruction supervenes when the determined gets the better of the determining by the help of the environment (though in a special sense the word putrefaction is applied to partial destruction, when Meteorology
• Putrefaction, a name traceable even nowadays in that of Pourrires, a neighboring village. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1