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Water splitting? Why didn’t they call it hydrolysis?
by wyxuan 7y ago
Water splitting? Why didn’t they call it hydrolysis?
- _0ffh 7y agoNo idea, but the complaint sounds like hairolysis. :-p
- xeromal 7y agohahahahah
- chrisweekly 7y agoI see what you did there. Well-played.
- adr_ 7y agoHydrolysis is chemical breakdown via reaction with water. This is electrolysis. But it's a popsci article, so they put that in the subtitle. "Splitting" makes sense to people who don't use terms like hydrolysis and electrolysis frequently.
- wyxuan 7y agoOops. I stand corrected. It's been a while since I've used hydrolysis and electrolysis.
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- nxpnsv 7y agoYour misunderstanding is a perfect illustration of why writers prefer simpler terms. That said, I’m sure you’d been ok with electrolysis, and anyone uncertain could look it up. Try looking up water splitting likely yields Old Testament stuff. In short: I agree, why not use the correct term and then explain it?
- arnarbi 7y ago> Try looking up water splitting likely yields Old Testament stuff. In fact, it yields exactly what we want: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_splitting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_splitting On my first page of Google results, all of them are about electrolysis, with a variety of diagrams from image search.
- ClumsyPilot 7y agoGoogle gives notoriously different results for me an or my parent'@)s account, I would not be surprised if they got the old testament ))
- nxpnsv 7y agoThanks, I stand corrected. Same result for me, I must learn to not just shoot from the hip and google first.