Definition of Decomposing

1. Verb. (present participle of decompose) ¹

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Definition of Decomposing

1. decompose [v] - See also: decompose

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decomposing

decomplex
decomplexation
decomplexations
decomplexified
decomplexifies
decomplexify
decomplexifying
decomplexity
decomposability
decomposable
decompose
decomposed
decomposer
decomposers
decomposes
decomposing (current term)
decomposite
decomposites
decomposition
decomposition of movement
decomposition potential
decomposition reaction
decompositional
decompositions
decompound
decompound leaf
decompoundable
decompounds
decompress
decompressed

Literary usage of Decomposing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Inorganic Chemistry: Including the Applications of the Science by Thomas Graham (1858)
"Bird's bait fry and decomposing cell. — To M. Becquerel we are j indebted for the investigation of the decomposing powers of feeble current for a long time, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"... oil (Japanese wood oil) with I alcoholic potash, and decomposing the ... and decomposing the salt by hydrochloric or sulphuric acid. ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1892)
"decomposing ORGANIC MATTER ON NATURAL PHOSPHATES. BY DR. NT LUPTON. ... The presence of decomposing organic matter is generally regarded as one of these ..."

4. Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts by Massachusetts Geological Survey, Edward Hitchcock (1841)
"decomposing Rocks that contain Feldspar. Feldspar and mica contain quite a large ... Indeed, an example of .the good effects of decomposing gneiss upon ..."

5. Standard methods of chemical analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"Special Procedures for decomposing the Sample Treatment of Iron and Steel for Silica ... Sodium peroxide is of special value in decomposing chromium alloys. ..."

6. Delsarte System of Expression by Genevieve Stebbins (1902)
"LESSON I. decomposing EXERCISES. ESTHETIC TALK. Dear pupil, will you accompany me, an invisible presence by my side, as we trace our way through a course of ..."

7. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"... it is not capable of uniting directly with ammonia, or decomposing alkaline carbonates, but crystallises unaltered from the solution, on evaporation. ..."

8. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"It is also used for the preparation of artificial sulphate or ' permanent white,' and for preventing the incrustation of steam boilers by decomposing the ..."

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