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ShareDecomposition is a phenomenon common in the sciences of biology and chemistry.
In biology, decomposition refers to the reduction of the body of a formerly living organism into simpler forms of matter.
For more information about the topic Decomposition, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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