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Suppose you are a chemist lost in the desert and desperately in need of water. If you had a chemistry set available, which type of reaction could you use to make water?

A) dehydration
B) exothermic
C) hydrolysis
D) redox

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Answer: Hydrolysis tell me how I'm wrong

Explanation: Hydrolysis is any chemical reaction in which a molecule of water breaks one or more chemical bonds. The term is used broadly for substitution, elimination, and solvation reactions in which water is the nucleophile

Dehydration is the absence of a sufficient amount of water in your body. The best way to beat dehydration is to drink before you get thirsty. If you're thirsty, you're already mildly dehydrated, and that can cause symptoms like headache, fatigue, dizziness, and more.

Exothermic: ----> (of a reaction or process) accompanied by the release of heat.

(of a compound) formed from its constituent elements with a net release of heat.

Redox: ---> a process in which one substance or molecule is reduced and another oxidized; oxidation and reduction are considered together as complimentary processes.

"redox reactions involve electron transfer"

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