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
But mind, whether it be diamond, or black-lead, or this porous charcoal, each and all have the same chemical composition; they are what we call the elementary undecomposable substance carbon.
From The Story of a Tinder-box by Charles Meymott Tidy
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
The earliest impressions which the mind can assimilate are those given to it by the undecomposable sensations, resistance, light, sound, etc.
From Froebel's Gifts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A line of demarcation is drawn between elements, meaning thereby forms of matter said to be undecomposable but probably capable of separation into unlike parts, and true elements, meaning thereby groups of identical undecomposable particles.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
