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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
decompose .
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Examples
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Next, this unstable atom, this new radio-element which we have called decomposes exponentially with a half-life of three minutes.
Artificial Production Of Radioactive Elements: Nobel Lecture 1935
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Self. detach, by Tim Horntrich and Jens Wunderling "decomposes" Flickr self-portraits into grains of colored sand, literally materializing the pixels; Caleb Larsen's
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Reservoirs flood previously productive ecosystems, replacing them with bodies of water where organic matter decomposes into the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane.
David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: A Triassic Warning, Carbon-Absorbing Forests, and Amazon Dams David Kroodsma 2011
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Henry decomposes output per capita into output per hour worked times hours worked per working-age person times the proportion of working-aged people in the population.
Three P's of Growth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If we do need a heavy lifter the question decomposes again into, do we have lots of money or time to make a brand new launcher?
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Reservoirs flood previously productive ecosystems, replacing them with bodies of water where organic matter decomposes into the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane.
David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: A Triassic Warning, Carbon-Absorbing Forests, and Amazon Dams David Kroodsma 2011
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Then after this first pulse of decay, plant matter settling on the reservoir's bottom decomposes without oxygen, resulting in a build-up of dissolved methane.
Learning from Lomborg, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Summary: When reservoirs are built and water floods the landscape, the submerged organic matter decomposes, producing methane and carbon dioxide CO2, both of which are greenhouse gases.
David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Yellowstone Wildfires, Sea Levels and Shorebirds, and Fracking Accounting David Kroodsma 2011
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The humus decomposes further into a “load of loose molecules,” which are carried off by wind and water.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Summary: When reservoirs are built and water floods the landscape, the submerged organic matter decomposes, producing methane and carbon dioxide CO2, both of which are greenhouse gases.
David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Yellowstone Wildfires, Sea Levels and Shorebirds, and Fracking Accounting David Kroodsma 2011
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