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hydrolysis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hydrolysis has 1 sense
- hydrolysis(n = noun.process) Array - a chemical reaction in which water reacts with a compound to produce other compounds; involves the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion from the water; Array is a kind of chemical reaction, reaction
Derived forms verb hydrolise1, verb hydrolize1
CIDE DICTIONARY
hydrolysis, n. [Hydro-, 1 + -lysis.].
A chemical process causing the splitting of a chemical bond by the addition of the elements of water. Where the bond which is split is not part of a ring structure, this process causes formation of two compounds from one compound plus water, as in the hydrolysis of the ester bonds of fats during saponification . [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hydrolysis, n. the chemical reaction of a substance with water, usu. resulting in decomposition.
Derivative
hydrolytic adj.
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