The phrase "and the splitting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing division, separation, or the act of splitting something into parts.
Example: "The process involves several steps, including the preparation of materials and the splitting of components for assembly."
Alternatives: "and the division" or "and the separation".
Both the rotting and the splitting let insects and diseases invade the tree.
The division of a protozoan into two cells and the splitting of a worm into two halves may be regarded as cases of autotomy.
Frequency reuse between discontiguous cells and the splitting of cells as demand increases are the concepts that distinguish cellular systems from other wireless telephone systems.
It says the rise in legal disputes over the size of maintenance and lump sum payments, and the splitting of pension pots, has largely been restricted to couples without children.
To minimise market instability and avoid a run on the pound, Cameron must confirm quickly the UK's stance on the status of sterling and the splitting of debt with Scotland.
Dr. Yerushalmi was mindful, for example, that Jews at the Passover seder continue to imagine themselves present at the Exodus from Egypt, even as historians question whether there could have been 10 plagues and the splitting of the sea.
Two of the most famous events in 20th-century science are the splitting of the atom by Ernest Rutherford & co in Cambridge in 1932 and the splitting of the infinitive by Gene Roddenberry & co in Hollywood in 1966.
Many different kinds of reactions are catalyzed by drug-metabolizing enzymes, including oxidation, reduction, the addition or removal of chemical groups, and the splitting of labile (chemically unstable) bonds.
Later discoveries with NMR included electric quadrupole effects; an important shift of NMR frequencies in metals; and the splitting of energy levels in liquids resulting from variations in chemical structure and the influence of one nuclear spin on another.
Mingled boos and applause greeted the first screening of Malick's symphonic opus, which mingles an intimate tale of a 1950s Texan childhood with nothing less than the creation of the cosmos and the splitting of the cell, via dinosaurs padding through primal forests.
The initial incorporation of carbon dioxide, which is catalyzed by the enzyme ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (Rubisco), proceeds by the addition of carbon dioxide to the five-carbon compound ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP) and the splitting of the resulting six-carbon compound into two molecules of PGA.
