Concept: degradation in the concept vocabulary

Concept URI	http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/2040
Preferred label	degradation
Definition	A type of organic chemical reaction in which a compound is converted into a simpler compound in stages.
Notation
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2013-12-05
Accepted Date	2013-12-05
Not Accepted Date
Alternative label	eroosio [fi] vittring [sv] υποβάθμιση [el] φθορά [el]
Has broader	6233 (physicochemical process) in gemet2/concept
Has narrower	11781 (chemical degradation) in gemet2/concept 826 (biodegradation) in gemet2/concept
Is related to	6855 (pyrolysis) in gemet2/concept
Has exact match	http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2159
Has close match	http://data.uba.de/umt/_00000013 http://dbpedia.org/resource/Degradation
Source	ALL2 (Oxford Dictionary of Ecology) in gemet2/source