decompose
verb (used with object)
to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate.
undecomposable
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a word derived from
decompose.
Example Sentences
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The book shows that the electron must be regarded as a kind of “element” itself, with much stronger claims to “elementary” or undecomposable characters than the bodies hitherto ranked as elements.
From Are the Planets Inhabited? by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder
Philosophy has also this disadvantage, that it possesses very many undecomposable concepts and undemonstrable propositions, while mathematics has only a few such.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
What chemists, for convenience, call elementary substances, are merely substances which they have thus far failed to decompose; but, bearing in mind past experiences, they do not dare to say that they are absolutely undecomposable.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
If we proceed on the supposition that the so-called elements are compounds, and if this law, if not universal, holds of undecomposable substances as of decomposable, then there are two implications.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
The earliest impressions which the mind can assimilate are the undecomposable sensations produced by resistance, light, sound, etc.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
