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What does deteriorative mean?

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Adjective
  1. Causing deterioration.
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Kahlo died, probably of a complication of pneumonia, the last in a cascade of deteriorative maladies, a year after the opening of her first solo exhibition in Mexico.
Molecular mobility within preserved biological materials provides a first approximation of the rate of deteriorative reactions that ultimately affect shelf-life.
Lower glycogen content and higher lactate content in postmortem muscle were correlated with deteriorative pork quality.
Chronologically Betty was not old, but on the other hand, multiple, progressive, deteriorative processes led to her death.
In experiments, the researchers monitored product temperatures and followed deteriorative changes in the haddock by analyzing microbiological counts and other parameters.
Each food chapter discusses deteriorative reactions for each product and reviews how packaging materials may affect its shelf life.

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