decompose
verb (used with object)
to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate.
decomposable
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a word derived from
decompose.
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
This is easily demonstrable by the more rapid, and thicker, cloudiness of any clear decomposable liquor in the course of a day or two, or in a few days, according to circumstances.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
At present there is no evidence that greensand casts are ever formed at great depths; nor has it been proved that Glauconite is decomposable by the agency of water and carbonic acid.
From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
