"decay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Rapid bacterial decay prevents the accumulation of humus.
- These conditions had prevented any onset of bacterial decay of the soft tissues.
- The gases from bacterial decay begin to escape, causing strong odor.
- In a hot, dry climate the body may dehydrate, inhibiting bacterial decay; the skin dries to a dark leathery appearance.
- These qualities helped inhibit bacterial decay of the mummies.
- When plants die in such an anaerobic aquatic environment, low oxygen levels prevent their complete bacterial decay.
- While the preservation of food in the freezing temperatures and dry climate has been noted, bacterial decay still occurs.
- Something that would both dissolve grease and act as a bleach, and in the same process, help to preserve the leather from bacterial decay.
- Red ochre inhibited bacterial decay and was also an insect repellent, including the small parasitic insects that lived on warm-blooded animals like humans.
- These enzymes also play a role in breaking down food particles entrapped within dental crevices, protecting teeth from bacterial decay.
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