unreconstruct

present singular third person unreconstructs · participle present unreconstructing · participle past unreconstructed · past unreconstructed

1. To reverse or undo the effects of reconstruction.

   Hydrogen adsorption can unreconstruct surfaces and passivate surface dangling bonds, and thus can change the surface properties dramatically.

   2002, Hari Singh Nalwa, Handbook of Thin Film Materials

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   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.

   1988, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics, RLE Progress Report - Issue 131, page 83

   The argument for describing these surfaces as bulk terminated, as chlorine adsorption is known to unreconstruct silicon surfaces, was presented in chapter 1.

   1997, Carlotta Marie Paulsen-Boaz, The Carrier-mediated Photodesorption Reaction on Chlorinated Silicon Surfaces