Example Sentences

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Because they are made of living cells, they are biocompatible, or nontoxic, and biodegradable, or naturally decomposable.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2022

The gift will support research in fields such as climate science, energy, biofuels and decomposable plastics.

From Nature • Oct. 1, 2019

Cal Tech said the donation would be used to study solar science, climate science, energy, biofuels, decomposable plastics, water and environmental resources, and ecology and biosphere engineering.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2019

The process may be accelerated by exhausting the desiccator; this so-called vacuum desiccation is especially suitable for the concentration of aqueous solutions of readily decomposable substances.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

I then experimented on bodies rendered decomposable by fusion, and first on chloride of lead.

From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael