hydrolysis

English

Etymology

From hydro- +‎ -lysis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹɒlɪsɪs/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹɑləsəs/
• Rhymes: -ɒlɪsɪs

Noun

hydrolysis (countable and uncountable, plural hydrolyses)

1. (chemistry) A chemical process of decomposition involving the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion of water.

Derived terms

• alkaline hydrolysis
• amidohydrolysis
• autohydrolysis
• electrohydrolysis
• endohydrolysis
• glycohydrolysis
• hydrolase
• hydrolysate
• lysergic
• perhydrolysis
• phosphohydrolysis
• photohydrolysis
• prehydrolysis
• thermohydrolysis

Related terms

• hydrolytic
• hydrolyze

Translations

a chemical process of decomposition

• Armenian: հիդրոլիզ (hy) (hidroliz)
• Catalan: hidròlisi f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 水解 (seoi² gaai²)

  Mandarin: 水解 (zh) (shuǐjiě)

• Czech: hydrolýza f
• Danish: hydrolyse (da) c
• Finnish: hydrolyysi (fi)
• French: hydrolyse (fr) f
• Galician: hidrólise (gl) f
• German: Hydrolyse (de) f
• Greek: υδρόλυση (el) f (ydrólysi)
• Gujarati: જલવિચ્છેદન (jalvicchedan)
• Hindi: जलापघटन m (jalāpghaṭan)
• Hungarian: hidrolízis (hu), vízbontás (hu)
• Icelandic: vatnsrof
• Indonesian: hidrolisis (id)
• Italian: idrolisi (it) f
• Japanese: 加水分解 (ja) (かすいぶんかい, kasuibunkai)
• Kazakh: гидролиз (gidroliz), гидроыдырау (gidroydyrau)
• Korean: 가수분해 (ko) (gasubunhae)
• Malay: hidrolisis (ms)
• Maori: whakapāheko-ā-wa
• Polish: hydroliza (pl) f
• Portuguese: hidrólise (pt) f
• Russian: гидролиз (ru) m (gidroliz)
• Spanish: hidrólisis (es) f
• Swedish: hydrolys (sv) c
• Tagalog: tubigbilos
• Vietnamese: sự thuỷ phân