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pyrolysis solvolysis electrolytic dissociation heterolysis homolysis phosphorolysis photodissociation thiolysis cleavage reaction hydrolysis acid–base reaction reaction mechanism catalysis oxidation-reduction reaction ion-exchange reaction photochemical reaction combustion chemical synthesis fermentation chain reaction

Key People

Sir William Robert Grove

British physicist

Svante Arrhenius, 1918.

Svante Arrhenius

Swedish chemist

Viktor Meyer

Viktor Meyer

German chemist