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Hydrolysis 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.

Oops. I stand corrected. It's been a while since I've used hydrolysis and electrolysis.

Your 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?

> 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

On my first page of Google results, all of them are about electrolysis, with a variety of diagrams from image search.

Google gives notoriously different results for me an or my parent'@)s account, I would not be surprised if they got the old testament ))

Thanks, I stand corrected. Same result for me, I must learn to not just shoot from the hip and google first.

No idea, but the complaint sounds like hairolysis. :-p

hahahahah

I see what you did there. Well-played.