Breakdown vs Decrystallization - What's the difference?
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A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed
A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability
Listing, division or categorization in great detail
(chemistry) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
A musical technique, by where the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, and can vary in heaviness depending on the genre.
* 1992 , En Vogue, My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) (song)
(sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
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(US, dated) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the blacks of the southern United States.
(US, dated) Any crude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
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(US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
* 1893 , (Mark Twain) "The Californian's Tale", in (1906)
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As nouns the difference between breakdown and decrystallization
is that breakdown is a failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed while decrystallization is the breakdown of a solid, crystalline structure.breakdown
English
Noun
(en noun)- We saw a breakdown by the side of the road.
- After so much stress, he suffered a breakdown and simply gave up.
- ''Looking at the breakdown of the budget, I see a few items we could cut.
- And now it's time for a breakdown !
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- Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with.
- Foggy Mountain 'Breakdown'
- Towards nine the three miners said that as they had brought their instruments they might as well tune up, for the boys and girls would soon be arriving now, and hungry for a good old fashioned breakdown . A fiddle, a banjo, and a clarinet - these were the instruments.