unreconstruct

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ reconstruct.

Verb

unreconstruct (third-person singular simple present unreconstructs, present participle unreconstructing, simple past and past participle unreconstructed)

  1. To reverse or undo the effects of reconstruction.
    • 1988, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics, RLE Progress Report - Issue 131, page 83:
      It is interesting that in cases where the surface does not have the geometry and periodicity of the bulk-terminated plane, the interaction of hydrogen with surface atoms is strong enough to unreconstruct the complicated reconstruction patterns.
    • 1997, Carlotta Marie Paulsen-Boaz, The Carrier-mediated Photodesorption Reaction on Chlorinated Silicon Surfaces:
      The argument for describing these surfaces as bulk terminated, as chlorine adsorption is known to unreconstruct silicon surfaces, was presented in chapter 1.
    • 2002, Hari Singh Nalwa, Handbook of Thin Film Materials:
      Hydrogen adsorption can unreconstruct surfaces and passivate surface dangling bonds, and thus can change the surface properties dramatically.