Decomposition - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: decompositionDecomposition
The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts separation into constituent part analysis the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound disintegration as the decomposition of wood rocks etc...
Pythocenic
Producing decomposition as diseases which are supposed to be accompanied or caused by decomposition...
Bacteriolysis
Chemical decomposition brought about by bacteria without the addition of oxygen...
Cerebrin
A nonphosphorized nitrogenous substance obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance...
Cerebrose
A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non phosphorized principles of the brain...
Chemolysis
A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of organic substance into more simple bodies by the use of chemical agents alone...
Chrysophane
A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter yellow crystalline powder and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition...
Clay
A soft earth which is plastic or may be molded with the hands consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition in part of rocks containing aluminous minerals as granite Lime magnesia oxide of iron and other ingredients are often present as impurities...
CO2
the chemical formula for carbon dioxide a heavy odorless gas CO2 formed during respiration and by the combustion or decomposition of organic substances it is absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis The formula itself pronounced out is often used instead of the full name especially with reference to fire extinguishers using this gas for fire suppression as a CO2 extinguisher...
Consume
To destroy as by decomposition dissipation waste or fire to use up to expend to waste to burn up to eat up to devour...
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