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Definition of Decomposes
1. decompose [v] - See also: decompose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decomposes
Literary usage of Decomposes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"Sodio-zinc ethyl decomposes water with great violence, forming hydride of ethyl
... Sodium-ethyl decomposes the iodides of the alcohol-radicles in the cold, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"Solution decomposes on standing. (Weber.) Titanium nitride, Ti,N4. ... (v.
der Pfordten, ¡table, but the HC1 solution decomposes very easily. (Weber, B. 16. ..."
3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"It browns at 130°, melts and decomposes at 150°. ... Heat easily decomposes it;
even at 100° it disengages water with a feeble acid reaction, ..."
4. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1855)
"Arsenous acid decomposes bicarbonate of lime. Fragments of arsenous acid, ...
Artificially prepared tungstic acid decomposes both neutral and acid carbonate ..."
5. A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1821)
"Fourcroy says, that the sulphite of barita decomposes the carbonate of ammonia.
III. Л Table of the Sequences of the Acids with different Hases, ..."
6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"neither volatilizes nor decomposes unless another agent be introduced. Other known
combinations of chlorine, as chloride of magnesium, decompose even at the ..."
7. A System of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson, Thomas Cooper (1818)
"Caloric not only increases the bulk of bodies, and changes their state from solids
to liquids and from liquids to elastic fluids; but its action decomposes ..."
8. Popular Lectures on Science and Art: Delivered in the Principal Cities and by Dionysius Lardner (1846)
"Researches of Yelin, Marsh, and Camming.—Oersted and Fourier construct t Thermo
Electric Pile.—Becquerel decomposes Water with such an Instrument. ..."
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