Sentence examples for grave soil from inspiring English sources

The samples, including fragments of bones taken from his left ribs and pelvis as well as remnants of tissue from the abdominal cavity and grave soil, showed "unexpectedly high" activity of polonium-210.

Grave soil analysis may also provide another possible way of estimating time of death.

With a more detailed understanding of these processes, analyses of grave soil biochemistry could one day help forensic researchers to estimate how long ago a body was placed in a hidden grave.

The bones found on 25 August were uncovered on 4 September and the grave soil dug back further over the next two days.

Briefly, we show that eggs are significantly harmed by exposure to microbes in grave soil and that eggs lack endogenous immunity.

Quickliming (application of CaO) was tested as structure amelioration method in order to improve aeration properties in grave soils and thereby prevent decomposition problems due to an insufficient oxygen supply in the burial environment.

Janet Leigh's hand grabs at the shower wall-tiles in Psycho; Carrie's hands shoot up through the grave-soil to grab your feet.

Our results provide strong evidence that grave-soil microbes significantly reduce the survival of Nicrophorus eggs.

Eggs in this environment potentially face significant risks from the bacteria that proliferate in the grave-soil environment following nutrient influx from the decomposing carcass.

Our aims in this paper are twofold: first, to examine the fitness effects of grave-soil bacteria to eggs, and second, to quantify egg immunocompetence as a defence against these bacteria.

Eggs in this grave-soil environment are exposed to increased nutrient fluxes from carcass decay that increases the biomass of endogenous bacteria and of bacteria that migrate to the soil from the perforated carcass [ 35].