We have this advantage in the analysis of atmospherical air, being able both to decompound it, and to form it a new in the most satisfactory manner.
Although we have not yet been able, either to compose or to decompound this acid of sea-salt, we cannot have the smallest doubt that it, like all other acids, is composed by the union of oxygen with an acidifiable base.
Consequently, if they are mixed with a liquor in which both these sorts of salts are dissolved, they must decompound that sort whose basis is metallic sooner than the other whose basis is an earth.
As Acids have a greater affinity than any other substance with Alkalis, they may be very effectually employed to decompound Soap.
The facility with which Acids decompound Soap is the reason that no water, but what is very pure, will dissolve it, or is fit to be used in washing with it.
To decompound Vitriolated Tartar by means of the Phlogiston; or to compose Sulphur by combining the Vitriolic Acid with the Phlogiston 179 CHAP.
Therefore, if you would decompound it by the means of an Acid, you must pour that Acid immediately on the compound.
A Volatile Alkali will decompound any neutral salt which has not a Fixed Alkali for its basis; that is, all such as consist of an acid combined with an absorbent earth or a metallic substance.
One of the small divisions of a decompound frond or leaf.
One of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.
It hasdecompound leaves with very long narrow divisions, and a highly fragrant smell resembling that of new clover hay.
Defn: One of the small divisions of a decompound frond or leaf.
American fern (Botrychium Virginianum) having a triangular decompound frond and a long-stalked panicle of spore cases rising from the middle of the frond.
So also if the red and violet be intercepted, the remaining yellow, green and blue, will compound a green upon the Paper, and then the red and violet being let pass will fall upon this green, and together with it decompound a white.
Poisonous biennial, with spotted stems, large decompound leaves with lanceolate pinnatifid leaflets, involucre and involucels of narrow bracts, and white flowers.
An introduced biennial, with spotted stems, and large decompound leaves.
Bristly annuals or biennials, with pinnately decompound leaves, foliaceous and cleft involucral bracts, and white flowers in compound umbels which become strongly concave.
Moist ground annuals, with ternately decompound leaves, pinnatifid leaflets with oblong obtuse lobes, mostly no involucre, involucels of many bractlets, and white flowers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decompound" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
