The refrigerator preserves food from decay.

After applying either of these methods, you'll want to spray the seeds with bleach to prevent mold.

It was an amazingly smelly city.

My aunt says it's batinfested, and he nearly died from the mildew.

It's better to fight than to rot in this fort. You're right.

They are subject to, and victims of extortion, rape, murder, and even organ theft, their bodies left to rot in the desert.

Nylon was the start of blending two or more yarns in the production of socks, a process that still continues.

Without biologist Alexander Fleming's moldy accident, caused by a neglected workstation, we wouldn't be able to fight off so many bacterial infections.

It was an amazingly smelly city. Not just because of the cesspools, but also the sheer number of livestock in the city would shock people.

In their formal concert outfits, with masks on to protect themselves from the stench of decay, two classical musicians from Tetovo played Bach's famous orchestral suite Air to protest pollution.

Bacteria are vital in recycling nutrients, with many of the stages in nutrient cycles dependent on these organisms, such as the fixation of nitrogen from the atmosphere and putrefaction.