Tier: Second
Computation: 9 segment
Glass required: Yes
B-M-S Cost: 0.75
Duration: Instant
Area of Effect: Four ounces per level
Like the First Derivative, this formula downgrades a complex chemical into simpler constituents. Using the example from First Derivative, water, alcohol, poison, and pigment could be derived form a glass of poisoned wine. Plutonium could be downgraded to uranium then downgraded again into lead, the final stage of most heavy radioactive elements. The Mathematician may find if handy to have beakers or small containers with which she may store the derived chemicals.
Again, this formula does not work on living tissue unless it is to reverse the effects of an Integration. Unlike the First Derivative formula, this power also restores hit points lost due to the effects of Integration. Like First Derivative, this formula does have combat uses. It can damage stone, metal, or wooden structures such as buildings, boats, Constructs, and tools. It causes a structural point of damage, and the save for supernatural/magical/enhanced items is penalized by -3 because the derivative is deeper.