Definition of hydrolysis in English:
hydrolysis
noun hʌɪˈdrɒlɪsɪshaɪˈdrɑləsəs
mass nounChemistry The chemical breakdown of a compound due to reaction with water.
Example sentencesExamples
- Another preparation method involves acid hydrolysis of methyl formate.
- When hydrolysis occurs, we will write a chemical equation to describe it, and new species will be formed in solution.
- On ageing, textiles are usually damaged by oxidation or acid-catalysed hydrolysis.
- Digestion breaks down chemical bonds in a process called enzymatic hydrolysis.
- Again, they used partial acid hydrolysis of the whole chain and then protease digestion to give larger blocks.
Derivatives
adjective ˌhʌɪdrəˈlɪtɪk
Chemistry Results showed that increasing the pectolyase concentration in the hydrolytic solutions led to an increase of the digestibility of elicited cell walls.
Example sentencesExamples
- This investigation was pursued on barley grains, a model with a large physiological and molecular background dealing with the mobilization of hydrolytic enzymes during germination.
- They form acidic, hydrolytic compartments and also store a range of ions and metabolites and, in some tissues, proteins and other macromolecules.
- Proteases are a class of hydrolytic enzymes mediating irreversible disruption of protein amide bonds.
- Protein phosphatases comprise a broad group of enzymes that catalyse the hydrolytic cleavage of phosphate from proteins.
Definition of hydrolysis in US English:
hydrolysis
nounhaɪˈdrɑləsəshīˈdräləsəs
Chemistry The chemical breakdown of a compound due to reaction with water.
Example sentencesExamples
- Digestion breaks down chemical bonds in a process called enzymatic hydrolysis.
- On ageing, textiles are usually damaged by oxidation or acid-catalysed hydrolysis.
- Another preparation method involves acid hydrolysis of methyl formate.
- Again, they used partial acid hydrolysis of the whole chain and then protease digestion to give larger blocks.
- When hydrolysis occurs, we will write a chemical equation to describe it, and new species will be formed in solution.