as in decomposes
to go through decomposition
we traced the bad smell to a dead skunk putrefying under the house
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The research team enabled a room-temperature, four-electron chemical reaction path that forms and decomposes lithium oxide, which expands available energy storage.
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Organic material trapped in reservoirs accumulates and decomposes over time, releasing methane — a potent greenhouse gas that significantly contributes to global warming, Fernández-Garrido told CNN.
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The debris – space rocks known as meteoroids – collides with Earth's atmosphere at high speed and disintegrates, creating fiery and colorful streaks in the sky, according to NASA.
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Even those who can afford to stay suffer losses in home equity and lifestyle as the community around them disintegrates or disappears.
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Parents used to tell their children that television rots the brain; now it’s considered a medium for legitimate art.
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Training plants to stay off the ground instead of trailing prevents many common fungal diseases, fruit spots, and rots.
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Control concentrated in one person dies with that person, decays with that person's judgment, and converts to cash the day that person takes a hard enough offer.
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Europe will not be able to defend itself militarily if democracy decays internally.
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