Dubos started from the assumption that all organic matter added to the soil eventually undergoes decomposition through the agency of micro-organisms.

The reaction is usually endothermic as heat is required to break chemical bonds in the compound undergoing decomposition.

Organic matter in peat bogs undergoes slow anaerobic decomposition below the surface.

When sinapine is isolated it is unstable and undergoes decomposition.

It is known to undergo self heating and rapid decomposition accompanied by the release of toxic chlorine gas.

Substances which may undergo reaction or decomposition leading to a dangerous increase in pressure, explosion or attack on metal.

However, quadricyclane undergoes thermal decomposition at relatively low temperatures (less than 400 C).

When certain organic materials are heated they undergo thermal decomposition and release flammable gases.

The first step involves a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition to form a pyrazoline which then undergoes thermal decomposition to give cyclopropane.

Plastic explosive is nothing more than a substance which, when detonated, undergoes almost instantaneous decomposition.