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As a former undertaker, Morton-Hayward knew the brain is perhaps the softest of the body’s soft tissues: It tends to decay quickly after death, liquefying and leaving only the skull behind.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 19, 2024

People had been liquefying excess Gruyére in a bath of oxidized wine and mopping it up with day-old bread in the Alps for centuries, but the practice had never jumped the pond.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2023

Through the process of capillary action, contaminated water and liquefying waste, like that deposited in latrines, could travel to the sources of public drinking water.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

It appears that liquefying garbage was allowed to seep into soil, despite requirements that there should be waterproof layers laid under landfills to contain such seepage.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2022

The total weight came to around fifty pounds of Biohazard Level 4 liquefying primate.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston