Acids and Bases: Dissociation

What's that?

Dissociation is really just "to take apart what was associated". In chemistry terms, it is 

Splitting a soluble substance in water into ions. 

The simplest formula would be:

AB --> A + B

Here are some other facts:

• During dissociation, the ionic bonds are broken, but the covalent ones are not.
• Dissociation is actually a reversible process due to equilibrium, but the amount it so small it's really almost negligible.
• Dissolving is a dissociation process.