Putrefaction Synonyms

pyo͝otrə-făkshən
Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. corruption
  2. degeneracy
  3. depravation
  4. depravity

Words Related to Putrefaction

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Putrefaction Sentence Examples

  • Bacon describes oak-apples as " an exudation of plants joined with putrefaction."

  • If organic matter were first sterilized and then prevented from contamination from without, putrefaction did not occur, and the matter remained free from microbes.

  • In 1697 Georg Stahl admitted that fermentation and putrefaction were analogous processes, but that the former was a particular case of the latter.

  • It is also produced during the putrefaction of organic substances containing sulphur and is found among the products obtained in the destructive distillation of coal.

  • In the end much inorganic nitrogen salts must be added to the sea both in the above way and as the result of the putrefaction of the dead substance of terrestrial animals and plants.

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