degradation product
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degradation
noun[U]
uk/ˌdeɡ.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdeɡ.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/
the process in which the beauty or quality of something is destroyed ...
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product
noun
uk/ˈprɒd.ʌkt/us/ˈprɑː.dʌkt/
something that is made to be sold, usually something that is produced by an industrial process or, less commonly, something that is grown or obtained ...
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These molecules can be used as biomarkers because their degradation products persist in the environment for millions of years.
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Degradation products partly maintain life building capability and partly do not.
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From various lines of evidence, most workers have assumed that globin degradation products are the most important source of amino acids for the parasite.
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Thus, low molecular weight proteins may represent degradation products.
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As a consequence, a steady-state chemistry was established, whenever possible, among precursors, bio-molecules and degradation products.
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The possibility exists that some of the peptides detected may be degradation products, but the extraction conditions used should mitigate this.
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Histatin 2 is adegradationproductof histatin 1, and all other histatins are degradation products of histatin 3.
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Believed to be adegradationproductof paragonite, like illite it is a non-expanding, clay-sized, micaceous mineral.
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It is a colourless liquid that is adegradationproductof methionine.
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This off-white solid is a precursor to or adegradationproductof diverse commercial materials.
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Indole can be produced by bacteria as adegradationproductof the amino acid tryptophan.
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The presence of 7-aminoflunitrazepam, a pharmacologically-active metabolite and "in vitro"degradationproduct, is useful for confirmation of flunitrazepam ingestion.
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Acidic fumes can also be released from formaldehyde which can occur in wood as adegradationproductof lignin.
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Further incubation yields allyl cyanide as the majordegradationproduct.
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It is the simplest stable aminothiol and adegradationproductof the amino acid cysteine.
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Thisdegradationproductis able to act as an extraction agent for many metals, hence leading to the contamination of the product by fission products.
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Only mild granulomatous reaction was observed adjacent to the stent struts and degradation products.
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The final effector molecule of the fibrinolytic system is plasmin, which cleaves fibrin into soluble degradation products.
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Furthermore, normal features of cell death in the form of coordinated apoptosis could be thrown into disarray by damaging feedback influences from degradation products.
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Some of the degradation products are still protein amino acids.
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