How Potholes Form. Rainwater sinks through cracks in old or weakened asphalt. The water is soaked up by the mixture of rock, gravel, and sand that supports the road. Vehicles passing over the road force water through the soggy roadbed, eventually eroding parts of it.
disassemble The verb disassemble means to take something apart. It's one thing to disassemble a computer; it's a whole other thing to put it back together again.
Demanufacturing is the disassembly and recycling of obsolete consumer products. The goal is to remove and recycle every component in an appliance. For example, the motherboard and metal parts of a computer are smelted and the metals are recovered. The TV tube in the monitor is recycled and turned into a new TV tube. The computers plastic housing is recovered and turned into new computer housings.