Associations to the word «Hydrogenate»

Wiktionary

HYDROGENATE, 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

Dictionary definition

HYDROGENATE, verb. Combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope