chemical degradation

collocation in English

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chemical
adjective
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/ˈkem.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈkem.ɪ.kəl/
relating ...
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degradation
noun[U]
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/ˌdeɡ.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌdeɡ.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/
the process in which the beauty or quality of something is destroyed ...
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Nonradioactive automated sequencing of oligonucleotides bychemicaldegradation.
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While in literature, the cutting of nonmetals is often simply called sublimation cutting or cutting by vaporization, the present book distinguishes between melt shearing, vaporization, andchemicaldegradation.
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Thermal methods are the most commonly used and consists in increasing temperature to accelerate destabilisation (below critical temperatures of phase inversion orchemicaldegradation).
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For example, cracked or broken kernels are more susceptible to insect or bacteria as well aschemicaldegradation.
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It is also important that the liner resists abrasion, puncture, andchemicaldegradationby leachate.
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Thermal methods are the most commonly used and consist in increasing temperature to accelerate destabilisation (below critical temperatures of phase inversion orchemicaldegradation).
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Its first widespread use was in the incandescent light bulb to protect the filament fromchemicaldegradation.
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Sporopollenin is formed out of -carotene and is very resistant to biological andchemicaldegradation.
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It is also assumed thatchemicaldegradation(chemical decomposition) does not occur in the system in question and that particles do not adsorb onto surfaces that would hinder their flow.
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Woodward also applied the technique of infrared spectroscopy andchemicaldegradationto determine the structures of complicated molecules.
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