The Matter Decomposer is a machine added by Matter Overdrive. It is used to convert inserted items into their amount of Matter Plasma using Redstone Flux.
Each converted item has a 0.5% chance of failling to be converted, which will produce Matter Dust with the same matter value instead. This dust needs to be turned into Refined Matter Dust in a Matter Recycler in order to be decomposed again.
The amount of time and Redstone Flux needed to convert one item are given by the following formulas:
Where:
time is the time in ticks the decomposing will take
rf is the amount of Redstone Flux the decomposing will cost
matter is the matter value of the item being decomposed