water splitting
Decomposing water molecules
Water splitting is the chemical process of breaking water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen, typically through electrolysis or photocatalysis.
The term appears most often in discussions of clean energy production, since hydrogen extracted this way can serve as fuel: Solar-powered water splitting could revolutionize renewable energy storage.
- electrolysisCurrent-induced ionic separation
- hydrogenSimplest atomic element
- oxygenElement eight, colorless gas
- catalystAgent enabling change
- membraneThin tissue sheet
electrolyzer · fuel cell · renewable · renewable energy · clean energy · photocatalysis · bubbles · electrons · anode · cathode · green hydrogen · green technology · solar · platinum · proton · current · chemical reaction · reaction
- photosynthesisphotosynthesis, chlorophyll, chloroplast, chloroplasts, PSI
- oxygen releasephotosynthesis, exhale
- bond breakingbond breaking, bond cleavage, cleavage, dissociation, fission
- Photocatalysistitanium dioxide, photodegradation, zinc oxide
- radiochemistryradiolysis, radiochemistry, ionizing radiation, gamma radiation, radiation dose
- Hydrogenhydrogen, H2, hydrogen gas, hydrogen fuel, dihydrogen