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What does embrittle mean?

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Verb
  1. To become or make brittle.
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It should however be noted that excessive treatment can embrittle the substrate or even destroy the superficial coating.
Oxygen is able to embrittle beryllium, but there is no quantitative measure of the effect.
After use and disposal, exposure to UV light, heat, and moisture makes the caps embrittle and break down into small pieces.
Sunlight and seawater embrittle plastic, and the eventual breakdown of larger objects makes it available to zooplankton and other small marine animals.
Above that, they will embrittle and cease to function as intended.
Hydrogen is a concern in metallurgy as it can embrittle many metals, complicating the design of pipelines and storage tanks.

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