Sentence examples for decay prone from inspiring English sources

Inspired by the self-destructing mechanical sculptures of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, he favored organic materials like chocolate, dough and sausages to make works that were as mortal and decay prone as humans.

This has significant implications: where decay prone characters (such as muscles) are preserved by diagenetic mineralization this must have occurred very soon after death; where evidence of rapid authigenic mineralization is absent, interpretations of fossilized structures as decay prone internal anatomy require close scrutiny.

Where this is the case, and precisely because their informative characters must therefore be decay prone, it is these critical periods of evolutionary history that will be the most liable to bias.

Then, of course, the further question arises: how can any art made of such decay-prone and evanescent materials - goat hair, cheap silk, a beetle's wing, a ratty old chair - last for very long, let alone for ever?

The inner core reacts to high acidity in the mouth, which loosens up the nanospheres and preferentially releases their contents the antibacterial drug farnesol in decay-prone regions where it's needed most.

The fossil record is capable of exceptional preservation and occasionally labile and decay-prone tissues, such as skin and melanosomes (color-bearing organelles), are preserved as phosphatized remains or organic residues with a high degree of morphological fidelity [1], [2].

Additional file 3: Graphical representation of the characterization of decay state for most decay-prone characters recorded in the experiments.

Our results are difficult to reconcile with interpretations of highly decay-prone tissues and structures, such as neural tissue, and complex musculature, in recently described Cambrian lobopodians.

For statistical analysis, characters were arranged according to the sequence in which they decay and ranked from the most decay-prone to the most decay-resistant.

However, the position of the mouth in moderately decayed onychophorans cannot be differentiated, and it is unlikely to be a reliable character in lobopodians unless features that are equally or more decay-prone are present (i.e. the mode of preservation of the deposit facilitates preservation of decay-prone characters).

Conversely, organisms which possess decay-resistant body parts but have informative characters concentrated in decay-prone tissues will be just as liable to bias as those that lack decay-resistant body parts.