Verb:

छान-बीन करना, गल जाना, सड़ जाना, अपघटन करना, गलना, घुल जाना, सड़ना, घुलना,

decomposes's Usage Examples:

Water decomposes it violently with formation of hydrochloric and sulphurous acids.

Cadmium vapour decomposes water at a red heat, with liberation of hydrogen, and formation of the oxide of the metal.

It may be condensed and yields a solid which melts at - 55° C. Sulphuretted hydrogen decomposes it with formation of hydrofluoric acid and liberation of sulphur.

It combines with many metals to form sulphides, and also decomposes many metallic salts with consequent production of sulphides, a property which renders it extremely useful in chemical analysis.

A pentasulphide B2S5 is prepared, in an impure condition, by heating a solution of sulphur in carbon bisulphide with boron iodide, and forms a white crystalline powder which decomposes under the influence of water into sulphur, sulphuretted hydrogen and boric acid.

Long-continued heating with water also decomposes it slowly.

On fusion with solid potash at 250° C. it completely decomposes, giving potassium oxalate and hydrogen, C2H602-1-2KHO =K2C204+4H2.

It decomposes water slowly in the cold, and more rapidly on heating.

Concentrated sulphuric acid also decomposes it: H 2 SO 4 +H 2 S = 2H 2 0 +S02+S.

It slowly decomposes on exposure or on heating.

Synonyms:

break down, digest, crack, dissociate, break up, separate,

Antonyms:

associate, attach, stay, join, connect,