What is electrolysis and how does it apply to water and salt?

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What is electrolysis and how does it apply to water and salt?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-06T08:27:03

Electrolysis is a means by which electric energy facilitates the chemical reaction of decomposition in which compounds are broken down into their individual elements.

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Electrolysis is the use of an electric current to facilitate the decomposition of a compound. Water is decomposed by electrolysis into $O_{2}$ $"O"_2"$ and $H_{2}$ $"H"_2"$ . Molten sodium chloride is also decomposed by electrolysis into $Na$ $"Na"$ and ${Cl}_{2}$ $"Cl"_2"$ .

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