Preposition: at

• temperature: Compounds which decompose at lower temperatures may not give satisfactory EI spectra.

Object

• snail: As she was doing so a decomposed snail floated out with the ginger beer.

• corps: The hideously decomposed corpses, moldering away in the crammed seats of the carriage, supplied the answer instantly.

• granite: The area was covered with decomposed granite making it a natural site for a small airport.

• flesh: Since the zombies usually have decomposed flesh, hitting something with a rotten foot would surely cause it to fall apart.

Preposition: over

• time: Any organic material in the natural environment will decompose over time.

Preposition: into

• part: A general field of fluid motion can be decomposed locally into three generic parts, related to vorticity, divergence and deformation.

Modifying Another Word

• slowly: They said the Inga leaves would decompose far too slowly to feed the crops: the system was bound to fail.

• rapidly: Particularly in the summer birds rapidly decompose beyond the point where PM examinations are possible.

• readily: Decomposition of metal hydroxides: The Group 1 Alkali Metal hydroxides do not readily decompose on heating ' up to red heat ' .

Infinitive complement

• give: However, the melting temperature of the nitrate is above the decomposition temperature of the nitrite, which will decompose to give NO 2.

• form: This is the ( chemical ) process by which a compound in its molten state is decomposed to form its elements.

Preposition: in

• soil: Guidance During fumigation with methyl bromide some of the gas will decompose in the soil leading to residues of inorganic bromides.