That is decomposed and combined, which during admixture maintains the animation in the strongest degree unto the origin.
The nutritive matters are not decomposed upon the internal wall by extraneous influences, but they remain identical; ay, they become indifferent, because they enter into darker and warmer water.
It is probable that the calcareous earth is constantly decomposed by the root and its carbon absorbed.
It may be said, that calx were decomposed into alkali and carbon; water into oxygen and acid.
This substance, like fibrine, consists for the greatest part of nitrogen; it may be called dissolved or decomposed fibrine.
The stone, which is decomposed into carbon mixed with water, can become nothing less than a point.
On the other hand such nutritive matters are decomposed upon the external wall; and there here therefore gradually originates, instead of the chemicalizing root-process, the polarizing process of air.
The mixture in our stormglass decomposed under the influence of the electricity charging the air.
All this water contained a considerable amount, and after it was decomposed by our powerful batteries, this life-giving elastic fluid could have been restored to us.
One day, carried off by a hurricane from neighboring shores, some seed fell onto these limestone beds, mixing with decomposed particles of fish and marine plants to form vegetable humus.
The bedrock was granite, but was so decomposed and friable that one could dig it out like so much cheese.
Then we gave him a whiff ofdecomposed dog, propped him up against an old railroad tie and took his post-mortem statement in writing as to cause of his death.
In my mind I can still see his rugged, tear-stained face as he would piteously hold out his hands for his sack of decomposed dog when one of the sheepmen or Jackdo came in the way-car.
West of Parr's Ridge in the Piedmont, the principal soils are those the character of which is determined either by decomposed red sandstone or by decomposed limestone.
These consist of pits sunk through decomposed rocks of volcanic origin until a layer of tufa, limestone, and clay is reached.
The soil seemed almost black, so filled was it with decomposed vegetable matter, and its fertile appearance was unparalleled by anything which Stanley had seen in his journeyings.
Both theobromine and caffeine are decomposedby heating to 240° C.
Because the Gaures thought decomposed bodies polluted the earth, they did not bury their dead.
A dark red, finely laminated rock consisting chiefly of decomposed biotite and feldspar, occasional quartz grains and sericite and much iron oxide.
The feldspar is decomposed with the resulting formation of epidote, which is quite prominent.
Even the hardest bones of birds aredecomposed by the gastric juices, but hairs, feathers, and horny productions, are passed with the excrements, sometimes forming regular balls.
We have now learned that the organic matter in the soil performs the following offices:-- Organic matter thoroughlydecomposed is carbon, and has the various effects ascribed to this substance on p.
Spent tan bark, if previously decomposed by the use of the lime and salt mixture, or potash, answers all the purposes of prepared muck, but is more difficult of decomposition.
Why is decomposedbark more fertilizing than that of decayed wood?
The same little atom of nitrogen may one year form a part of a plant, and the next become a constituent of an animal, or, with the decomposed dead animal, may form a part of the soil.
Horn piths, and horn shavings, if decomposedin compost, with substances which ferment rapidly, make very good manure, and are worth fully the price charged for them.
Muck which has been long in this condition, is usually better decomposedthan that which is saturated with water.
Carbonic acid is absorbed from the atmosphere by leaves, and decomposed in the green parts of plants under the influence of daylight; the carbon is retained, and the oxygen is returned to the atmosphere.
Muck may be decomposed by the aid of other materials.
The purifying action of soap depends upon the fact that it is decomposed by a large quantity of water into free alkali and an insoluble acid salt.
They are produced from the amyloses and sucroses, as by the action of heat and acids of ferments, and are themselves decomposed by fermentation into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
A layer of clay ordecomposed rock along the wall of a vein.
After he had lain there nearly a week, a man now residing in Howell county took a hoe and shovel and raked up some rocks and pitched them upon thedecomposed body and threw a few shovels of dirt on him.
After Bacon had laid where he fell dead for two or three days he was found and being considerably decomposed a hole was dug and the body placed into it and covered up, where his dust remains until the present day.
We have seen that in the decomposed parts of the lode the gold exists in loose fine grains.
As both the ore and the enclosing rocks are greatly decomposed and very soft, the whole of the ground has to be securely timbered as the work proceeds.
Any material which is capable of being decomposedby an electric current.
At first the flocculent decomposed matter will rise to the surface of the water, but before many minutes it will settle to the bottom of the glass and leave clear water above.
The chief step in the production of the metal dates from the time that the mineral bauxite, a hydroxide of aluminium and iron, was decomposed in the electric furnace.
Exposure to the weather for thousands of years has not yet softened their asperities and decomposed them into vegetable mould; they are as hard and ungenial as if the volcanic stream had ceased to flow but yesterday.
Here, under a steep shelving bank ofdecomposed limestone, there is a pool of dark ash-coloured water, which continually bubbles up with an explosion like distant thunder.
But Mr. Mayburn and Margaret, who could not touch the decomposed fish and gnawed bones that were thrown to them, gradually sunk into a state of weakness that distracted their helpless friends.
Many branches ran from the main cave, but all seemed equally impregnable; and the only openings were small gaps far above the ground, from which the decomposed sandstone had fallen, and lay scattered in fragments over the ground.
Treatment with sulfuric acid decomposed these materials into a solid residue and dissolved phosphoric acid.
This process is called electrolysis, and the compound decomposed is the electrolyte.
When a solution is decomposed into parts by a current, the parts are called the Ions.
Wells are here out of the question, for there is no soil except a little decomposed lava, and the lava lets through all the water which comes from rains.
Very little soil is needed to give vegetation a chance in a rainy reason, and the decomposed lava makes a rich earth.
The sulphur bank is a remarkable deposit of decomposed volcanic rock and ashes, containing so large a quantity of sulphur that I am told that at the refining-works, which lie on the bank of the lake, the mass yields eighty per cent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decomposed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
