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• Kids can learn how their food waste can break down into rich compost.
  — Stacy Tornio, Treehugger, 18 Apr. 2023
• The sauce will break down into a deep and uniform vermilion color.
  — Danny Chau, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2022
• His project was to help find a way to put together a printer that could break down into only a few parts.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 9 Mar. 2022
• This is because as bananas ripen, their starches break down into sugar.
  — Hollyanna McCollom, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Apr. 2023
• Matter can be broken down into atoms, which break down into nuclei and electrons.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• Soil gets its pH mainly from the rocks that, over time, break down into the particles that are the base of the soil.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
• Plastics break down into microplastics that make their way into the air and ocean, harming marine life.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 19 May 2022
• Excess can go in the compost pile to break down into nature’s finest fertilizer.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2021
• Dreams have convoluted stories that are hard to break down into sequences of images or concepts.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2012
• Shellhammer says that the terpenes in hops, which are similar to the terpenes in cannabis, never add up to or break down into a skunky smell.
  — Madeline Bodin, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2021
• The skin at the corners of your mouth can break down into ulcers when left for too long— hence the confusion between AC and cold sores.
  — Isadora Baum, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
• Over time, that plastic will break down into tiny particles, known as microplastics, which contaminates the air, water, soil and food.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• During the first few seasons, the politics of the Solar System break down into three core factions.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2020
• The chemicals have been linked to several health problems and often do not break down into the environment easily.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2021
• The available style choices generally break down into either Power Ranger or gold-prospector work boots.
  — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
• The better, more flavorful soy sauces are fermented longer, which allows the proteins in the soy (and wheat) to break down into the amino acids that lend the condiment its glutamate-rich content.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
• Plastics are key because international research increasingly shows some types can break down into smaller pieces known as microplastics.
  — Scott Sonner, USA TODAY, 15 May 2022
• In particular, plastic films break down into microplastics, contaminating the soil.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2022
• In the ocean, as the tens of millions of tons of plastic already floating at sea break down into microscopic pieces, some of those minute particles take flight into the atmosphere via sea spray and get carried around the world by wind.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2021
• In the environment, plastic bottles can break down into miniscule particles, called microplastics, which make their way into our food water, posing a potential risk to human health.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023
• The concern about environmental microplastics, which include the tiny and enduring fragments that plastic products from baggies to polyester clothing break down into, has been growing over the past decade.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 6 May 2021
• Instead, the fibers break down into microplastics, which are frequently ingested by all types of creatures -- including the primate species that currently dominates the planet.
  — cleveland, 29 May 2021
• Some 25 percent of it will break down into a cakey nutrient-rich material — most used productively to replenish soil at agricultural and mining sites.
  — Robin Shulman Agüeros, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Invasive plants are determined by Wisconsin state law and break down into either prohibited or restricted invasive plants.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2021
• Tai is considered a problem-solving pragmatist on trade policy, which can break down into an ideological divide between free traders and protectionists.
  — Paul Wiseman, ajc, 24 Feb. 2021
• The 21 data points break down into two broad categories, which are pollution burden and population characteristics.
  — Yoohyun Jung, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Nov. 2021
• Something like a single-use water bottle will break down into smaller and smaller fragments—what are known as microplastics—but likely won’t fully decompose for around 450 years, if ever.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 5 Oct. 2022
• When burned, vinyl chloride can break down into hydrogen chloride, phosgene, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide vapors, according to the EPA.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• In soils, certain rocks continually break down into new materials in reactions that consume CO2.
  — Julie Brigham-Grette and Steve Petsch, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
• That makes the Philippines’ approval of the crop a huge milestone, especially amidst false rumors that its beta-carotene would break down into cancer-causing chemicals, Le Page reports.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020