What is "decomposed"

Usage examples of "decomposed".

Slags are for the most part decomposed by boiling with aqua regia, but it will be found more convenient and accurate to first extract with acids and then to treat the residue as an insoluble silicate.

Fillet of sole amandine was tasteless, decomposed, and swimming in broth, and the almonds had not browned.

His method is to use pure prismatic colors on the principle that color is light in a decomposed form, and that its proper juxtaposition on canvas will recompose into pure light again.

Then we had a slim repast of soda water and bananas, the Hadji worshiped with his face toward Mecca, and the boatmen prepared an elaborate curry for themselves, with salt fish for its basis, and for its tastiest condiment blachang--a Malay preparation much relished by European lovers of durion and decomposed cheese.

The genii of the elements will render up the sacred materials intrusted to them, and rebuild the decomposed bodies.

A faulty mortality switch on its collar prevented biologists from finding the body before it decomposed.

The girders and beams and cross-supports might not have been wood and metal but bony accretions of calcium and other minerals, the last remains of a decomposed leviathan washed up on the lonely beach of an ancient sea.

Apparently, they discovered a badly decomposed head during a search of some railroad tunnels yesterday afternoon.

And it was the duality of universes, each exhibiting a spacetime decomposed into two discrete dimensions, which gave rise to the two-way duality manifested by tweedles and antitweedles: Dums, dees, antidums, and antidees were simply spacelike, timelike, antispacelike, and antitimelike projections of the same fundamental entity existing in the timeless, spaceless domain of tweedlespace.

Destruction of tissue cells and bacilli would liberate poisonous, decomposed bodies into surrounding healthy tissues.

It has properties very similar to Black Mustard seeds, containing Sinigrin, a crystalline glucoside, which is decomposed in the presence of water by Myrosin, an enzyme found also in the root, the chief produce being the volatile oil Allyl, isothiocyanate, which is identical with that of Black Mustard seed.

Thomsen decomposed cryolite with calcium hydroxide into calcium fluoride and sodium aluminate.

Austell has reason to be glad of that, for without decomposed feldspar there would be no treasure house of china clay.

There was about that place a rich fetidity: gray rats and blackbirds decomposed, by schoolboys done to death.

Four months later Marie-Reine's decomposed torso had been discovered in a hockey bag in a storage shed behind the Pent home.