“Another disturbing trend is the apparently widespread disintegration of social and family ties.”
“The becquerel is a unit of radioactivity and corresponds to one radioactive disintegration per second.”
“Watching the disintegration of a man's dreams is uncomfortable, however morally ambiguous he might be.”
disintegrant
(medicine) Any material that is added to a pharmaceuticalpreparation to make it disintegrate (and thus release the active ingredient) on contact with water