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The process of cleaving a chemical compound by the addition of a molecule of water.

A chemical process whereby a compound takes up oxygen and hydrogen in the proportion forming water and is thereupon resolved into other compounds; the result is called splitting ("fat-splitting," "starch-splitting," etc.) when it is induced in the animal or vegetable body through the action of enzymes.

Decomposition of a chemical compound by the addition of water.

Decomposition due to absorption of water.

Syn.: hydrolytic disassociation. Decomposition due to the absorption of water; chemic decomposition in which the compound breaks up after absorbing one or more water molecules. [Gr.]