Verb (used with object) : The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : The egg began to decompose after a day in the sun.    From Dictionary.com. 

The molecule of Avogadro has always been a decomposable particle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

Whatever is composite in either of these ways is also decomposable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angels and Us] Reference

The soul would be mortal, too, if it were materially constituted and decomposable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angels and Us] Reference

Being defined as incorporeal substances, as purely spiritual beings, angels are not thus decomposable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angels and Us] Reference

The first, a specialized structure, is one that is decomposable into substructures that are unsegmented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rediscovering Institutions] Reference

Third, the issues of institutional design or evaluation are not routinely decomposable into separable problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rediscovering Institutions] Reference

Worldwide, sturdy bells quickly superseded decomposable, and edible, cheese balls as jesters 'preferred cap ornaments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Osmo's Bells] Reference

When we say that all human beings or all animals are mortal, we have in mind that they are decomposable and so perishable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angels and Us] Reference

Inside this outer cover, you insert a disposable, decomposable diaper refill that can be flushed down the toilet no diaper pail necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spotlight on ‘hybrid’ diapers] Reference

Inside this outer cover, you insert a disposable, decomposable diaper refill that can be flushed down the toilet (no diaper pail necessary).    From Wordnik.com.  [Spotlight on ‘hybrid’ diapers] Reference

The great principle to be observed in removing the solid refuse from barracks is that every decomposable substance should be taken away at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference

When a carriage ascends a hill, the weight or gravity of the whole is decomposable into two -- one perpendicular, and the other parallel to the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829] Reference

The watery pulp of fruits is not particularly rich in nutrients but apple, grape, and pear pulps are generously endowed with soft, decomposable seeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

All that is required is that the behavior of a more comprehensive system be decomposable to elementary behaviors explicable at a less comprehensive level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rediscovering Institutions] Reference

Another way to try to explain the failure of property composition is to interpret the properties of composite systems as holistic, non-decomposable properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics] Reference

In the above modal interpretation, property composition fails: The properties of composite systems are not decomposable into the properties of their subsystems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics] Reference

With these bodies the lime forms insoluble lime soaps; these remain in the cloth, but in a form easily decomposable and removable by treatment with acids and washing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference

Owing to the small quantity of felspar which it contains, and the abundance of the difficulty decomposable mica, the soils formed by its disintegration are generally inferior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference

I propose to call bodies of this, the decomposable class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1] Reference

A body decomposable directly by the electric current, i.e. an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1] Reference

(thing)™ is not decomposable into two distinct properties this way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analytic Philosophy in Early Modern India] Reference

Gradients of decomposable systems like these can be computed with back-propagation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

They are all decomposable by heat, soluble in water, and turn vegetable blue colours red.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

The biggest problem is the growing volume of biologically decomposable community wastes on waste dumps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prague Monitor] Reference

They contain a large proportion of nitrogenous and saline matters, with earthy salts in a readily decomposable state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

In weathering, the difficultly decomposable precious stones have not been attacked, or attacked only to a limited extent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference

Manifestly, decomposable states of consciousness cannot exist before the states of consciousness out of which they are composed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference

Pack several boxes inside a larger brown box with 5,637 non-decomposable foam peanuts (each one shrink wrapped individually, of course).    From Wordnik.com.  [bit-tech.net Feed] Reference

Organic materials: Grain husks, reclaimed paper and composted cow manure are replacing plastic for use as durable and decomposable pots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevada Appeal - Top Stories] Reference

It implies, in the first place, that reality is decomposable into groups, which can be practically regarded as isolated and independent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference

For if a body of known chemical composition is found to be decomposable, and the nature of the substance evolved as a primary or even a secondary result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1] Reference

Again, fused nitre and the fused iodide and chloride of lead were decomposable by the current of this single pair of plates, though they were not by the former (903.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1] Reference