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Discover LudwigThe word "Decompose" is correct in written English
It is typically used in contexts related to the breakdown of organic matter or the analysis of complex systems into simpler components. Example: "As the leaves fall, they begin to decompose, enriching the soil with nutrients."
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Decompose
verb
To separate or break down something into its components; to disintegrate or fragment
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Searing heat in the summer gives way to heavy rain in winter, all the better for a body to decompose.
We can decompose the statistics to support various narratives, but to me it seems clear that, at a minimum, the security threat from illegal immigrants and spillover violence is a lot smaller than people make it out to be.That doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned at all.
When they die and decompose, this returns to the atmosphere.
Modern Indian Parsis place their dead on a "Tower of Silence"—the most famous is in Mumbai where they are consumed by carrion birds.Left to their own devices, bodies decompose very quickly, particularly in hot countries.
In the chart below, I decompose the increase in the BRICs' dollar GDP into these two components: the part due to growth (assuming all prices had remained the same) and the part due to price changes of various kinds.
But their water-based electrolytes limit their potential, because of water's tendency to decompose by electrolysis.
Its enzymes decompose cellulose and hemicellulose into sugar monomers.
What if it were possible to decompose the methanol without steam, and within the fuel cell itself?
Henry Snaith, Oxford Photovoltaics' founder, looks forward to all-perovskite tandems that have cells of different composition, each tuned to harvest a particular part of the solar spectrum.The main obstacle to the march of perovskites is water: they decompose in it.
When hit in this way they decompose to form nanodiamonds.
These dead fish running to some 20m tonnes a year wind up getting dumped back into the sea, where they decompose, polluting coastal areas.
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