Modified starch is only likely to be preserved under specific conditions, such as arid regions because of its susceptibility to organic decay.

It is produced by organic decay in rice paddies, wet soils, ruminant animals and landfills.

That was the first hint that in cold water, with low oxygen content, organic decay can be vanishingly slow.

These compounds, produced by organic decay, can cause photon emissions.

Most of their leaves were down, covering the ground with a dry mat of organic decay.

The mixture of floral perfume and organic decay was an olfactory confusion.

Peat was anaerobic compost, organic decay so old that all its oxygen had been used up.

During advanced stages of organic decay, all electron acceptors become depleted except carbon dioxide.

In the hot midafternoon sun, she smelled dirt, and the faint odor of organic decay.

The female usually lays between September and February, provided there has been enough rain to start organic decay of the litter.