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This enzyme breaks down starch.

In scanning, the picture must be broken down into lines of successive elements.

A pure substance that can be broken down into two or more ...

The picture is broken into the sequence of elemental parts by the process of scanning.

Hydrogen, oxygen, ... cannot be resolved into simpler substances.

Forces acting on an aerodynamic surface can be resolved into a lift and a drag, and a pitching moment.

Thus the white sunlight is spread out (or dispersed) into a spectrum.

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