"dehydrogenate" meaning in English

See dehydrogenate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /diːˌhaɪdˈɹɒdʒəneɪt/ [UK] Forms: dehydrogenates [present, singular, third-person], dehydrogenating [participle, present], dehydrogenated [participle, past], dehydrogenated [past]
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  1. (chemistry, transitive) To remove hydrogen from (a substance). Tags: transitive Related terms: hydrogenate, dehydrogenation Translations (to remove hydrogen from a substance): deshidrogenar (Catalan), déshydrogéner (French), Wasserstoff entziehen (German), dehidrogénez (Hungarian), deidrogenare (Italian), deshidrogena (Romanian)

Inflected forms

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