Word Meanings - THERMOLYSIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The resolution of a compound into parts by heat; dissociation by heat.

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• RESOLUTIONER
  One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• RESOLUTIONIST
  One who makes a resolution.
• RESOLUTION
  The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem. (more info) 1. The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. The act of
• DISSOCIATION
  The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; -- said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances; as, the dissociation of the sulphur molecules; the dissociation of ammonium chloride
• COMPOUND
  In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
• SUPRADECOMPOUND
  More than decompound; divided many times.
• IRRESOLUTION
  Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear; irresoluteness; indecision; vacillation. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in
• FELONY; TO COMPOUND A FELONY
  . See under Compound, v. t.
• DECOMPOUNDABLE
  Capable of being decompounded.
• DECOMPOUND
  1. To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time. 2. To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose. It divides and decompounds objects into . . . parts. Hazlitt.