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What does dehydrogenation mean?

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  1. (chemistry) Any reaction or process in which hydrogen is removed from a substance, especially the production of unsaturated organic compounds from saturated ones.
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A second dehydrogenation turns acetaldehyde into acetic acid, aka vinegar, which gets digested as usual.
The dehydrogenation and selective hydrogenation reactors were run continuously and the product collected.
In processes such as the dehydrogenation of isopropyl alcohol, it is a far more effective catalyst than either rhenium or palladium.
Worldwide, UOP has been awarded 25 out of the last 29 dehydrogenation projects in the last three years.
With a capacity of 650,000 metric tons per annum, the plant will be the largest single line propane dehydrogenation facility in the world.
This effect of diphenylamine has been interpreted as blocking a series of dehydrogenation steps in the transformation of the more saturated to the less saturated carotenoids.

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