How to Use electrolysis in a Sentence

electrolysis

noun

• She had electrolysis done on her upper lip.
• The process, electrolysis, has been used for decades, although not at this scale.
  — Henry Fountain Nina Riggio, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• Are electrolysis and laser hair removal the same thing?
  — Margaux Anbouba, ELLE, 31 Aug. 2023
• The best way to get rid of pesky facial hair is either laser hair removal (on dark hairs) or electrolysis.
  — Ellen Warren, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
• The foam core acts a conductor, and the nickel-iron hydroxide starts the electrolysis.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2019
• But first, electrolysis (pdf) needs to get much better.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2021
• The bulk of the power would be used to run desalination and electrolysis equipment.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 6 June 2019
• Your lipstick hears that electrolysis doesn’t hurt too much.
  — Audrey Burges, The New Yorker, 5 July 2023
• It’s been really an emotional thing for me, but electrolysis is the only thing that seems to be working for me.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 26 June 2024
• Molten regolith electrolysis byproducts are used to create cover glass to protect the solar cells for at least a decade, and the aluminum is used as wire.
  — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 13 Feb. 2023
• The company uses electrolysis to remove the oxides from iron ore, instead of the standard method which uses coke, a form of coal, to burn away the oxygen.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
• The process using photo catalysts is the best option for space travel as the equipment weighs much less than the one needed for electrolysis.
  — Charles W. Dunnill, Scientific American, 10 July 2018
• Water has been turned into hydrogen and oxygen for decades, through the process of electrolysis.
  — Russ Mitchell Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• On the flip side, there’s electrolysis, which produces even longer-lasting results than laser treatments.
  — Jessica Cruel, SELF, 25 Jan. 2022
• Ionized water has been put through an electrical process called electrolysis (not to be confused with the hair-removal treatment with the same name).
  — Christy Brissette, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
• It’s produced using wind and solar power, along with a high-tech electrolysis process.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• The equipment needed for the beginning of the process—transferring a drawing onto a metal pattern by means of a glass plate, wax and electrolysis—had been lost.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Hair removal methods range from easy and cheap (like shaving with a razor) to high-tech and expensive (like laser hair removal and electrolysis).
  — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2023
• The effort planned at the Minnesota plant will use a process called high-temperature steam electrolysis.
  — Keith Ridler, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
• The goal, though, is to create it from renewables using electrolysis.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• But those levels didn't increase over time, confirming that the system kept the seawater out of the electrolysis chamber.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2022
• That compressed carbon dioxide is then sent to the 10-cell solid oxide electrolysis stack.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2021
• There are non-razor options, such as laser, electrolysis, or hair-removal creams, either by prescription or over-the-counter.
  — Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard, Allure, 30 June 2021
• The industry has struggled to bring down the cost of this technology, which is produced using wind and solar power and a high tech electrolysis process.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• Claude came back to electroplating, to sculpting directly from nature thanks to electrolysis and the system of molds.
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
• The rare earth oxide then undergoes a molten salt electrolysis process that converts it into a solid metal form.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2024
• The hydrogen itself can be produced by running this process in reverse, which is called electrolysis.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2018
• Oxygen is available as a byproduct of mining for water ice using a process called electrolysis.
  — WIRED, 20 Jan. 2023
• On a recent Friday morning, a chlorine smell floated through the pilot site, a telltale sign of the electrolysis process used to produce magnesium.
  — Sandrine Rastello and Natalie Obiko Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• In the science world, hypochlorous acid is replicated by combining salt, water, and vinegar through electrolysis.
  — Myranda Mondry, Allure, 4 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024