décomposer

Leur formation date probablement de l'époque où le désert était le lit d'une mer intérieure et que de grandes quantités d'algues contenant de l'azote se décomposèrent, produisant du nitrate de soude.
They were probably formed when the desert was the bed of an inland sea, and the decay of vast quantities of seaweed containing nitrogen produced nitrate of soda.
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