Such hydrogel networks degrade into high molecular weight polymer backbone chains and degradation products from the crosslinker.
But stability, if it lasts, could also easily degrade into attrition.
The trouble with national projects, even when they emerge from struggles against colonialism, is that they can degrade into nationalist projects.
Hand them down to future generations, turning the fact that a plastic bag might take 1,000 years to degrade into a virtue.
More than 900 square miles of land degrade into useless desert each year, he said, while much larger areas are losing their productivity.
In "The Astronomer's Dream," Mr. Gehr performs a similar alchemical operation with some video material by speeding up the images so much that they degrade into smeary purple vertical lines.
In a World Bank study, water expert John Briscoe says: "Pakistan is already one of the most water-stressed countries in the world, a situation which is going to degrade into outright water scarcity due to high population growth".
Its agent is Mette, whose brittle compassion and refracted Holocaust nightmare -- her parents were freed from the camps before she was born -- degrade into an increasingly mad self-indulgence.
They should not be allowed to degrade into instruments of stock market speculation, so that managers are governed by the new god – the share price – and the temptations of their own colossal self-enrichment.
According to a World Bank study, Pakistan is already one of the most water-stressed countries in the world, "a situation which is going to degrade into outright water scarcity".
Thin metal films can degrade into particles in a process known as dewetting.
