Phrase Hound found 8 phrases and 15 compound words that contain degradation. The most common are listed below. Open degradation in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 8
- land degradationThe decline in the overall quality of soil, water or vegetation condition commonly caused by human activities.
- Environmental degradation
- graceful degradationThe ability of a system to maintain at least some of its functionality when portions are not working, or when certain features are not available.
- Marker degradationA three-step synthetic route in steroid chemistry, used for the production of cortisone and mammalian sex hormones from plant steroids.
- photo-degradationAlternative spelling of photodegradation: Any reduction or degradation in a useful property of a material because of a chemical change as a result of absorption of light.
- Hofmann degradationSynonym of Hofmann rearrangement: The organic reaction of a primary amide to a primary amine with one carbon atom less. It involves oxidation of the nitrogen followed by rearrangement of the carbonyl and nitrogen to give an isocyanate …
- Edman degradationA method of sequencing amino acids in a peptide. The amino-terminal residue is labelled and cleaved from the peptide without disrupting the peptide bonds between other amino acid residues.
- Curtius degradationSynonym of Curtius rearrangement: The thermal decomposition of an acyl azide to an isocyanate with loss of nitrogen gas. The isocyanate then undergoes attack by a variety of nucleophiles such as water, alcohols and amines, to yield a …
Compound words 15
- antidegradationPreventing or countering degradation.
- hydrodegradationchemical degradation by water
- autodegradationDegradation of an organ or substance caused by itself.
- chemodegradationThe decomposition of any material by chemical processes.
- degradationalPertaining to or formed by degradation.
- neurodegradationSynonym of neurodegeneration: The degeneration (and death) of neurons.
- nondegradationThe absence of degradation
- overdegradationExcessive degradation
- predegradationprior degradation
- psychodegradationdegradation of mental capacity