Mount Vernon. A visit to George Washington's Virginia home, Mount Vernon, is an easy escape from Washington D.C. â one that the president himself enjoyed. It's also a journey through history: the country estate of this quintessential gentleman has been meticulously restored and affords a glimpse of rural gentility from a time long gone.
1 Hydrolysis reactions use water to breakdown polymers into monomers and is the opposite of dehydration synthesis, which forms water when synthesizing a polymer from monomers.  Hydrolysis reactions break bonds and release energy.
The converse of dehydration synthesis is hydrolysis. Dehydration synthesis, that is, builds molecules up â at the expense of energy (endergonic reaction) â while hydrolysis breaks molecules apart, liberating energy (exergonic reaction). ATP, for example, is synthesized from ADP and inorganic phosphate via an energy-requiring dehydration synthesis reactions, and is converted back to ADP in the course of a hydrolysis reaction.