You split logs, but you actually cleave a branch away from the trunk.

As our learned friend Dr Wikipedia continues to explain, the lye ‘cleaves the ester bonds’. This is an unwittingly apposite turn of phrase, since ‘cleave’ is one of those chimeric contranyms, or Janus words, that encapsulates its own opposite.
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You split logs, but you actually cleave a branch away from the trunk.
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