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Definition of Decomposed
1. a. Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.
Definition of Decomposed
1. Verb. (past of decompose) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decomposed
1. decompose [v] - See also: decompose
Medical Definition of Decomposed
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Decomposed
Literary usage of Decomposed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"Silica is decomposed by hydrofluoric acid and by fusion with the fixed alkali
... Those which are decomposed by acids. 2. Silicates not decomposed by acids. ..."
2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"Decomposed FOODS Decomposition is defined us natural decay. In this sense all
organic substances, both animal and vegetable, living or dead, are decomposed, ..."
3. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius (1897)
"C. SILICATES WHICH ABE PARTIALLY Decomposed BY Acros. §244. Most rocks are mixtures
of several silicates, of which 231 some are often decomposable by acids, ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1898)
"Decomposed band of brownish andesite; from hanging-wall of same ... Andesite,
slightly decomposed, varying from blue to brown ; showed no sulphides. ..."
5. Observations on the Geology of the United States of America: With Some by William Maclure (1817)
"This is a partial, irregular, and variegated class, and has many properties highly
favourable to vegetation in its decomposed state. 1st. ..."
6. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"The mercury amalgam is drawn off at the bottom of the cell, is decomposed in a
separate vessel, and then returned to the cell. OJS 1539. ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1886)
"SI6) thus concludes a lengthened inquiry into this subject: It is established
beyond doubt that decomposed dried codfish is sometimes capable of producing ..."
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