decomposable

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Because they are made of living cells, they are biocompatible, or nontoxic, and biodegradable, or naturally decomposable.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2022

The gift will support research in fields such as climate science, energy, biofuels and decomposable plastics.

From Nature • Oct. 1, 2019

Cal Tech said the donation would be used to study solar science, climate science, energy, biofuels, decomposable plastics, water and environmental resources, and ecology and biosphere engineering.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2019

The process may be accelerated by exhausting the desiccator; this so-called vacuum desiccation is especially suitable for the concentration of aqueous solutions of readily decomposable substances.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

The molecule of Avogadro has always been a decomposable particle.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison