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
  • The third method doesn't involve electrolysis at all.
    — New Atlas, 14 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Among them are waxing and electrolysis.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • It’s produced using wind and solar power, along with a high-tech electrolysis process.
    — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • On the flip side, there’s electrolysis, which produces even longer-lasting results than laser treatments.
    — Jessica Cruel, SELF, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The greener way to make hydrogen is through electrolysis.
    — New Atlas, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The bulk of the power would be used to run desalination and electrolysis equipment.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 6 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • The goal, though, is to create it from renewables using electrolysis.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The foam core acts a conductor, and the nickel-iron hydroxide starts the electrolysis.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2019
  • Oxygen is available as a byproduct of mining for water ice using a process called electrolysis.
    — WIRED, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The third and final stage is selective electrolysis.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
  • That’s why the spa offers private rooms for its mani-pedis and electrolysis — and unlike in the rest of the mall, free-roaming kids are not allowed.
    — Talia Lavin, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The hydrogen itself can be produced by running this process in reverse, which is called electrolysis.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2018
  • Someone else’s electrolysis is my bikini-line shaving.
    — Caroline Rothstein, InStyle, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The rare earth oxide then undergoes a molten salt electrolysis process that converts it into a solid metal form.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2024
  • 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
  • Emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, gold leaf and sediment of electrolysis on canvas.
    — Mark Whitaker, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Lotions in particular remove hair from the root, are less painful than wax strips, and are much cheaper than laser hair removal and electrolysis.
    — Danielle Jackson, Glamour, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Some women also opt for hair removal with electrolysis or lasers, though this usually needs to be done on a regular basis.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • That compressed carbon dioxide is then sent to the 10-cell solid oxide electrolysis stack.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But, as electrolysis processes and green-energy sources become more efficient, the cost could come down.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The effort planned at the Minnesota plant will use a process called high-temperature steam electrolysis.
    — Keith Ridler, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020

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