In his pockets, he carried a black plastic comb, a Sheaffer fountain pen and three small leather-bound address books, all decomposed. |
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The lead had severely decomposed during its one hundred year history, and its fragility was exacerbated by poor packing for shipment. |
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A small, decomposed body was found in a weedy field about two miles from where the girl disappeared. |
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It's in this cave and the bodies are pretty well decomposed though some still have hair and what not. |
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They also noted that much kaolin is in or near decomposed porphyry bodies that overlie the largest ore shoots in the Leadville Dolomite. |
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Those winged seeds store enough energy to take root in a thick layer of partially decomposed leaves. |
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Nitriles can be decomposed by acids or alkalis to give the corresponding carboxylic acid or they can be reduced to give primary amines. |
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The hydride is a complex alloy of rare-earth elements and other metals that may be decomposed and reformed reversibly. |
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In 1765, Euler decomposed the motion of a solid into a rectilinear motion and a rotational motion. |
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An image is decomposed into a collection of sub-sampled spatial frequency bands, known as subbands. |
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All positive whole numbers are either primes or they can be uniquely decomposed into a product of primes. |
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He decomposed the moving pictures into sequential tracings for publication. |
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A bolero jacket decomposed at the edges into layers of peach gauze, dotted with lace flower appliques and fur patches. |
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Because she was so badly decomposed, police have been unable to tell if she was murdered or killed herself. |
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Davy had developed a technique by which unusually stable compounds could be decomposed into their constituent elements. |
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The decomposed body of King Midas, lying in state in his coffin, might be viewed as the just reward for his over-indulgence. |
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For the most part this area is decomposed granite laced with leaves and pine needles. |
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Alcohol evaporates or is decomposed, so fermentation cannot be proven directly. |
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Peatlands consist of layer upon layer of partially decomposed plant material. |
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Some 17 days passed before her badly decomposed body was found, 20 miles away. |
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The remains were so badly decomposed, scientists were unable to establish a cause of death, and murder was not ruled out. |
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Nitric acid can be thermally decomposed to give water, nitrogen dioxide, and oxygen. |
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Glyphosate has little residual activity and is rapidly decomposed to organic components by microorganisms in the soil. |
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Thus, two molecules of water have been decomposed into two molecules of hydrogen and one molecule of oxygen. |
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Because they cannot be decomposed any further du Sautoy calls them the atoms of arithmetic. |
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This can be decomposed into the two functions, each of which we know how to differentiate. |
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With broadcasting, the electronic audience was delocalised and socially decomposed. |
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The acids are extracted from the partially decomposed bark and, after drying for storage, are freshly mixed for use with wine and green vitriol. |
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The inorganic sediments were covered with poorly decomposed fibric peat accumulations that contained well-preserved rudiments of earlier communities. |
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Sometimes manure is spread over land without first being decomposed. |
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Airborne CFCs, which were relatively inert near Earth's surface, were being decomposed by sunlight in the upper atmosphere, releasing free chlorine atoms. |
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I found that the water was only up to my knees and as it drained away, the body's molecular structure decomposed leaving behind it a silvery shimmer of light. |
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Her remains were so badly decomposed that no clear cause of death has been established, but South Yorkshire Police are treating her death as murder. |
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He preferred the decomposed granite soil in the valley facing False Bay, claimed it, and named it Constantia. |
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The badly decomposed body of a man has been found in a reservoir at Ogden. |
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Some 100,000 kilograms of decomposed corpses were transported to an estimated 30 secondary burial sites. |
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This mountain is capped by several castellated masses of basaltic lava, much weather-worn and decomposed by the acid vapours evolved from the surrounding solfataras. |
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Hydrated cyanic acid is a volatile and highly blistering fluid, which cannot be brought into contact with water without being instantaneously decomposed. |
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The resulting adduct can be decomposed with ammonia to release the free alkene. |
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Once acetylcholine has carried out its job of triggering a reaction in an adjacent cell, it is decomposed by an enzyme present in the synapse. |
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His face was reconstructed with a lifelike silicone mask of the type used in wax museums because it was apparently too decomposed to show. |
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This reaction produces ammonium carbamate, which is subsequently decomposed into urea under a pressure of 5 atmospheres. |
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Interior chambers were lined with a thin layer of partially decomposed dicotyledon leaves. |
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Palo brea trees provide the shade, candelilla dot the grid of black pea gravel, and Indian fig punctuates the decomposed granite. |
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Repot cymbidiums If your cymbidium orchids are bulging out of their containers or the bark has decomposed, it's time to repot them. |
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The DATA matrix is then decomposed using Singular Value Decomposition, which yields the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix. |
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The deposits of oil pumped from the North Sea, for example, consist partly of decomposed haptophyte algae called coccolithophorids. |
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Corpses may have been placed in nearby caves until they decomposed, when the bones were moved to the tomb. |
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When phytoplankton cells die, they sink towards the bottom and are decomposed by bacteria, a process that further reduces DO in the water column. |
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Donoghue bought her a bottle of ginger beer, which contained the partially decomposed remains of a snail. |
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Donoghue drank from an opaque bottle containing a decomposed snail and claimed that it had made her ill. |
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The idea that a machine can be decomposed into simple movable elements led Archimedes to define the lever, pulley and screw as simple machines. |
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Hemic peats are partially decomposed and sapric are the most decomposed. |
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Trommer also shows that inflectional affixes which appear to be bisyllabic must either be decomposed into different markers or must be underlyingly monosyllabic. |
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A forensic anthropologist can assist in the identification of deceased individuals whose remains are decomposed, burned, mutilated or otherwise unrecognizable. |
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The clothing is believed to have decomposed while in the bog for so long. |
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Another concern arises from biodegradation because the biocompatibility of silk fibroin does not necessarily assure the biocompatibility of the decomposed products. |
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After washing, the insoluble lime soap is decomposed with hot dilute sulphuric acid. The melted fatty acids thus rise as an oil to the surface, when they are decanted. |
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Water splitting, in which water is decomposed into its component protons, electrons, and oxygen, occurs in the light reactions in all photosynthetic organisms. |
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Fibric peats are the least decomposed and consist of intact fiber. |
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If a carcass remains unbutchered for more than two days the accumulated gases can cause it to explode and spray decomposed entrails over a wide area. |
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