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ELI5: What happens to an eyeball after it's removed from a body and loses its moisture?

Sorry if this is gross, I've just always wondered and can never figure out how to Google this. I never participated in dissections and I don't hunt so I've never interacted with an eyeball apart from putting contacts in.

If you took an eye out of a person or animal (not suggesting this at all) and just set the eyeball on a table, what would happen to it? Would you have an eyeball raisin after it's all dried out, or a pile of eye dust, or just nothing?
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Well, it would definitely depend upon the environment around the eyeball, but since you're particularly curious about it being dried out; in an arid environment (say under a heat lamp or something) yeah, it would turn into basically an eyeball raisin. But under most conditions, it'd basically just eventually rot, turning into a dark goo as it decomposes, like the rest (mostly) of the organs.