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Definition of Hydrolize

1. Verb. Make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis.

Definition of Hydrolize

1. Verb. (intransitive) To undergo hydrolization. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrolize

Literary usage of Hydrolize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"that these substances are very slightly soluble in themselves, but hydrolize greatly with the formation of a readily soluble constituent. ..."

2. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"After this failure to hydrolize ethyl butyrate by means of extracts from the meat, milk and foot, attempts were made to emulsify and ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"... much water will hydrolize it, and if present as salts of a base-forming element these also are hydrolized. In an acid solution its salts are oxidized ..."

4. Chemistry: An Elementary Text-book by William Conger Morgan, James Alexander Lyman (1911)
"Since aluminum is a very' weak base-forming element, its salts hydrolize ... Salts that hydrolize readily are ordinarily used, for by running the goods over ..."

5. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1918)
"... much water will hydrolize it, and if present as salts of a base-forming element these also are hydrolized. In an acid solution its salts ..."

6. Proceedings of the Annual Conference by Indiana Science Teachers' Association, American Society of University Composers (1906)
"... be formed with the litmus which would hydrolize with water to produce tho original condition again to a certain extent and prevent a sharp color change. ..."

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