On Venus, hot water vapor rose high into the atmosphere where water molecules were split apart by the action of sunlight.

在金星上，热的水蒸气上升到大气层中，在大气层中水分子在阳光的作用下分解。

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So what that means is that's how much energy we would have to put into a hydrogen molecule in order to get it to split apart into its two atoms.

它的意义,就是我们需要向一个氢分子中注入这么大的能量,才能将它分解成两个独立的原子。

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If you zap purified water with electric current, you can split apart a water molecule into a positively charged hydrogen ion and a negatively charged hydroxide ion (oxygen attached to hydrogen).

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