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hydrogenate - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
transitive verb
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
transitive verb (Chem.) To hydrogenize.
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verb chemistry (transitive ) to treat something, or react something, with hydrogen ; especially to react an unsaturated fat with hydrogen, in the presence of a nickel catalyst , to produce a harder saturated fat
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Sabatier was given the prize for developing a method to hydrogenate organic compounds in the presence of metallic catalysts.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
Industrial food processing has discovered a more efficient way to prolong shelf life of products: hydrogenate the fatty acids, destroying the EFAs.
Leo Galland, M.D.: Frankenfats: How the Food Industry Created a Monster M.D. Leo Galland 2012
And so you can hydrogenate oils without producing trans fats.
What I think is really going on in the war on trans fat. Ann Althouse 2006
I won't bore you with the chemistry, but the trans forms of fats are lower in energy and are thermodynamically favored when and if the fat molecules rearrange, so it is a challenge to hydrogenate oils without having them do this.
What I think is really going on in the war on trans fat. Ann Althouse 2006
When William Procter and James Gamble started the company Procter & Gamble, they hired chemist E. C. Kayser and developed the process to hydrogenate cottonseed oil, which ensures the shortening remains solid at normal storage temperatures.
Grease is good | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2005
Thus, nickel appeared to us to possess a remarkable capacity to hydrogenate ethylene without itself being visibly modified, i.e. by acting as a catalyst.
Paul Sabatier - Nobel Lecture 1966
Mike Russell gleefully puts it, 'The purpose of life is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide.'
Wax Banks 2010
But because soybean oil spoiled when heated, producers had to hydrogenate the oil to keep it stable, thus creating trans fats.
EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010
But because soybean oil spoiled when heated, producers had to hydrogenate the oil to keep it stable, thus creating trans fats.
EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010
Mike Russell gleefully puts it, 'The purpose of life is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide.'
Wax Banks 2010
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