In the climax of the book, the candles release a deadly virus which causes people to disintegrate into dust particles.

The Yamasee lived in South Carolina until they were defeated in the Yamasee War of 1715, after which survivors were widely dispersed and the people disintegrated as a polity.

After this defeat the people under Sekonyela disintegrated, some went to Lesotho where they were adbsorbed into Moshweshwe's state, others to Eastern Cape with a substation portion fleeing north to present Tshwane region in Gauteng.

Monti Sharp gives his easy patter the punctuating effect of a Greek chorus as he watches these people disintegrate, and his final announcement of their doom, which seemed just a clumsy ending to clumsy play, has the kind of punch this glib cop says he likes to throw.

As Somalia disintegrated into the current crisis weather it famine, or displaced people.

The episode followed the Fringe team's investigation into random people mysteriously disintegrating into ash, a case which Agent Broyles had become deeply obsessed with in the past.

Many people disintegrate.

The lag in communication allowed the peoples along the Rhine to believe that the empire had in fact disintegrated.