deterioration

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Deleterious alteration of a material in quality, serviceability, or vigor.
Notes:
  1. Deterioration can result from physical and/or chemical phenomena.
  2. Deterioration is connected to a loss of performances and thus to the function, whereas degradation is connected with a loss of properties.
  3. Polymer deterioration is more general than polymer degradation, which reflects loss of properties resulting from chemical cleavage of macromolecules only.
See: degradation
Source:
PAC, 2012, 84, 377. (Terminology for biorelated polymers and applications (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)) on page 389 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'deterioration' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.13902 RIS BibTex EndNote
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