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Hydrogenate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To combine with or subject to the action of hydrogen, especially to combine (an unsaturated oil) with hydrogen to produce a solid fat.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. (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

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To hydrogenize.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To cause to combine with hydrogen; hydrogenize.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound)

Word Usage

"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."

Verb Form

hydrogenated hydrogenates hydrogenating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change modify alter

Form

hydrogenated hydrogenating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

hydrogenize