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Hydrolysis

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

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

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