hydrolysis
A chemical process of decomposition involving the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion of water.
Related words
- amidohydrolysis
- electrohydrolysis
- hydrolase
- hydrolysate
- lysergic
- perhydrolysis
- phosphohydrolysis
- prehydrolysis
- thermohydrolysis
- photohydrolysis
- glycohydrolysis
- autohydrolysis
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