decompose

He wants to take the fingers, let them decompose, then take the bones and make a finger bone necklace out of it.

The question before us, then, is this: how quickly does a dead person decompose?

Instead, as the body began to decompose, she spread baking soda on the floorboards to mask the smell.

By this time the husks will have begun to decompose and darken the kernels.

Mineral acids decompose it, with the evolution of sulphuretted hydrogen.

A strong heat will decompose this lunar nitre, and recover the silver.

Remember that the hanging of meat is for the purpose of allowing it to begin to decompose.

Betton's eyes, fixed on him, saw his face decompose like a substance touched by some powerful acid.