Delaminate vs Exfoliate - What's the difference?
delaminate | exfoliate |
To cause something assembled by lamination to come apart (or take apart) into the layers that make it up.
:Water damage caused the plywood of the floor to delaminate . The layers came apart and the whole piece had to be replaced.
To remove the leaves from a plant.
To remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation.
(mineralogy) To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales as the result of heat or decomposition.
