Synthesis & Breakdown of Polymers

• Dehydration Reaction: When two monomers bond together and lose a water molecule.
• Dehydration Reaction is building.
• Dehydration Reaction = Synthesis Reaction
• Hydrolysis Reaction: polymers disassembling into monomers due to absorbing a water molecule and breaking a bond.
• Hydrolysis Reaction = Decomposition
• Hydrolysis Reaction is breaking down.