English-Danish translations for putrefaction

• forrådnelse
  Bestrålingen kan beskytte mad mod forurening, men den kan ikke ændre forurening eller forrådnelse i mad. It can protect food from contamination. What it cannot do is to reverse contamination or putrefaction in food.
  Det øger dannelsen af metan ved forrådnelse af organisk affald og forstærker drivhuseffekten. That will add to the formation of methane, as a result of putrefaction of organic waste, and the greenhouse phenomenon.

Definition of putrefaction

• The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products
• The state of being rotten

Related words

• putrefy
• putrefied
• putrefactive