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You can use it when referring to the breakdown or decomposition of something, such as an object or material. For example, "The banana skin decomposes quickly in the hot summer sun."
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decomposes
verb
Third person singular of decompose
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The evidence of this paper, which decomposes electoral bias subsequent to the 2010 general election, is that the manner in which this argument is currently being presented is largely false and that much of the existing bias will remain after the independent boundary reviews following new procedures have completed their work in 2013.
That is because the waste would otherwise be sent to landfill or, as it decomposes, release methane – a greenhouse gas 25 to 30 times more powerful than CO2.
The bulk of the carbon taken into a tree remains in its trunks and roots until it dies and decomposes.
You write quite a bit about the phenomenon of craquelure the process by which a painting decomposes, or reveals tension.
This way of looking at things, he observes wryly, decomposes a heroic challenge (eliminating the emissions in the stabilisation triangle) into a limited set of merely monumental tasks.What constitutes a wedge is, to a certain extent, a matter of taste.
Most rubbish in China ends up either in landfills or in unregulated heaps outside cities, where it gives off methane as it decomposes.
During her first weeks of training, the 36-year-old Williams encounters maggot-eaten bodies, severed limbs and a 560-pound dead man whose cadaver, too large to fit inside a refrigerated compartment, slowly decomposes in the laboratory while technicians wait desperately for the sign-off authorising a postmortem.
Water decomposes kainite to epsomite and sylvite.
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She uses the dried out manure that is left after the poo has decomposed as fertiliser on her vegetable garden.
Sweet smelling and in fine fettle, you knew only something good would eventually come from these piles of decomposing vegetation.
Hare complains that the soaring array of deaths in the latest series of The Bridge – bodies decomposed, bodies corrupting slowly from within, bodies bashed with lamp stands – is accompanied by none of the excitement in the wider world that would be needed to inculcate any sense of realism.
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