Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove hydrogen from.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
dehydrogenize .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Chem.) To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb chemistry to remove
hydrogen from a substance
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove hydrogen from
Etymologies
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de- + hydrogenate
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Examples
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But there is an interesting test out there, measuring what's called alcohol dehydrogenate, which is an enzyme in your blood that actually breaks down alcohol.
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This will be integrated into SIBUR's new complex to dehydrogenate propane and manufacture polypropylene in Tobolsk.
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