Disintegrate
Disintegrate , transitive verb
[Latin dis- + integratus, past participle of integrare to renew, repair, from integer entire, whole. See Integer.]
To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences.
Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.
Disintegrate , intransitive verb
To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.