can collapse

Moderate earthquake motions can collapse (or destroy) walls and...

Such tumours are destructive to adjacent tissues.

Only molten alkali metals and gaseous fluorine at high temperatures and pressures attack TFE resin.

The maximum stress applied to rupture the material is called ultimate stress.

Such forces of expansion can break down the strongest material.

A collapse of the information infrastructure can lead to collapse of the enterprise.

The explosion tends to make heavier nuclei out of lighter ones.

Further weathering may turn goethite to hematite.

The paste is formed into a thin film by compressing it between...

This DNA polymerase converts the single-stranded DNA into a duplex molecule.

Collapse of a mass of sediment causes it to become a turbid liquid.

We render this equation exact by multiplication by (x, y) = xy.

Alchemists believed that lead could be turned to gold.

One pound of water requires about 970 Btu to change (or convert) it to steam.

The propeller accelerates the air passing through it, thereby changing (or transforming) engine power into useful thrust.

To convert heat to (or into) electricity,...

The amplifier converts direct current to alternating current.

The machine can be converted into a projection welder.

A microprocessor can be made into a general-purpose microcomputer.

вали́ться от ве́тра — ≈ be weak as a baby

The X-rays can also bring about (or cause, or elicit) chemical changes in the environment of the chromosomes.

Bimolecular processes may be responsible for (or cause, or trigger) reactions at such low temperatures.

Use of scraper units has brought about (or led to, or resulted in, or produced) a change in the stripping procedures.

Exposure will cause the tubes to swell.

The unbalance voltage causes a galvanometer to deflect.

The use of a driving belt could give rise to vibrations.

The homogeneous para- to orthohydrogen conversion is induced by paramagnetic molecules.

Certain fungi are responsible for histoplasmosis, a lung infection.

It is important to know the conditions that bring on a spin (авиа).

Resonance destabilization will effect a greater decrease in...

Fertilization of the eggs elicited a pronounced increase of poly().

The detonator is a device used to initiate the explosion of a high explosive.

It is not certain what process triggered the initial collapse of the solar nebula.

Only a little heating above the glass temperature is needed to provoke crystallization.

Viscosity sets up (or gives rise to) tangential stress at the body surface.

The X-rays can also bring about (or cause, or elicit) chemical changes in the environment of the chromosomes.

Bimolecular processes may be responsible for (or cause, or trigger) reactions at such low temperatures.

Use of scraper units has brought about (or led to, or resulted in, or produced) a change in the stripping procedures.

Exposure will cause the tubes to swell.

The unbalance voltage causes a galvanometer to deflect.

The use of a driving belt could give rise to vibrations.

The homogeneous para- to orthohydrogen conversion is induced by paramagnetic molecules.

Certain fungi are responsible for histoplasmosis, a lung infection.

It is important to know the conditions that bring on a spin (авиа).

Resonance destabilization will effect a greater decrease in...

Fertilization of the eggs elicited a pronounced increase of poly().

The detonator is a device used to initiate the explosion of a high explosive.

It is not certain what process triggered the initial collapse of the solar nebula.

Only a little heating above the glass temperature is needed to provoke crystallization.

Viscosity sets up (or gives rise to) tangential stress at the body surface.

These caves collapse before we can gain access to them from the surface.

The light penetrates into the cladding from the core.

The large chromate ions would not penetrate the smaller pores.

Usually long extended tooling reaches into otherwise completely inaccessible areas.

The air finds its way into the pump suction.

Should air gain access to the suction,...

Let us imagine that each molecule of a magnetic substance is a tiny magnet in itself.

These two features alone do not provide an adequate description of...

The average result has little value by itself.

Catalysis is so important that the chemist considers it a subject by itself.

The rays are not in themselves colour making.

Each of the density ranges is quite broad in itself.

Isotope sources are not competitors of machines per se.

The large clouds and large globules will probably collapse on their own under the force of their own gravitation.

Each processing element of the computer is a powerful computing unit in its own right.

Chronological age on its own is not a contra-indication to surgical intervention.

The silicate framework is electrically neutral and can exist by itself.

The molten material did not burst out on (or of) its own accord.

This explanation is correct as far as it goes, but it is hardly satisfying.

None of these phenomena would seem by itself to be a convincing cause of the reptilian extinctions.

Taken alone, this shift is insufficient for describing...

тре́снуть кого́-л по голове́ — hit / bang smb on the head

тре́снуть от сме́ха — split / burst one's sides (laughing)

не могу́ найти́, хоть тре́сни — I can't find it for the life of me

чтоб ты тре́снул!, чтоб тебе́ тре́снуть! — blast you!, damn you!