Decomposed [verb]

Definition of Decomposed:

rot, break up

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Sentence/Example of Decomposed:

Indistinct specimens, apparently consisting of decomposed compact felspar.

Grey granite, consisting of brown and white mica, quartz, and a large proportion of felspar somewhat decomposed.

The gold cannot be decomposed: let a test be added, and the indestructible ore will re-appear.

He showed that the fustin-tannide could be decomposed by acetic acid into tannic acid and a glucoside, fustin C46H42O21.

The precipitate was filtered, washed, and decomposed by hydrogen sulphide in a mixture of water and ether.

The tar seemed to be decomposed to some extent, giving a yellow substance.

It was filtered off, washed free from lead acetate, decomposed by hydrogen sulphide, and shaken out with ether.

It is largely decomposed, by water, into silver cyanide and hydrocyanic acid.

It is, in fact, on account of this property, that potassium oxide is decomposed by water.

The oxide, K2O, is decomposed by neutralizing hydrogen ions formed by the primary ionization of water.