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TO DEGRADE, DEGRADING. To, sink or lower a person in the estimation of the
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The compounds must be resistant enough to the degradative effects of heat and oxygen, which can ultimately cause tire failure. The hinge cap is mainly made of corn-based polylactide resin, which is degraded into carbon dioxide and water by microorganisms and degradative enzymes. Isolated in 2003, strain 121 is thought to have possibilities in the treatment of toxic waste as well as high-temperature detergents, based on its heat-resistant degradative enzymes (Kashefi and Lovley 2003). |
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