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Combine or treat with or expose to a particular gaseous element.

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Usage examples (10)
  • And so you can hydrogenate oils without producing trans fats.
  • Sabatier was given the prize for developing a method to hydrogenate organic compounds in the presence of metallic catalysts.
  • 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.
  • 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...
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