Disintegrate Meaning

"Marlites […] are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years." — 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy:

"There is a Latvian gentleman named Theodore Nemor living at White Friars Mansions, Hampstead, who claims to have invented a machine of a most extraordinary character which is capable of disintegrating any object placed within its sphere of influence." — 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:

"Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source through which society is reborn." — 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 20:

"But Schneider has wantonly misstaged Lucky's monologue: instead of a recitation by rote of a travestied history of Western philosophy and religion that gradually disintegrates into chaos, we get a choppy set of starts and stops, as of a jalopy that cannot get into proper gear." — 1971 March 1, John Simon, “The Sorcerer and His Apprentices”, in New York Magazine, volume 4, number 9, page 58:

"The left outer wing structure impacted the ground first; the No. 1 engine, and then the left main landing gear, followed immediately. The aircraft disintegrated, scattering wreckage over an area approximately 1,600 feet long and 300 feet wide. No complete circumferential cross-section remained of the passenger compartment of the fuselage, which was broken into four main sections and numerous small pieces. The entire left wing and left stabilizer were demolished. No evidence of in-flight structural failure, fire, or explosion was found." — 1973 June 14, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Aircraft Wreckage”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Eastern Air Lines, Inc., L-1011, N310EA, Miami, Florida, December 29, 1972, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024, page 8: