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What does hydrogenate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hydrogenate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (chemistry) 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
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So what we gain in one aspect becomes a liability when you hydrogenate it.
And beef is a source of trans fat because cows hydrogenate fat in their stomachs.
Linolenic acid makes soy oil go rancid, so processors must hydrogenate it to make it stable.
In order to minimize this rancidity, manufacturers will hydrogenate the oil.
But if you partially hydrogenate it, then does it make it bad?
As an example, in 1862 he built a big hydrogenate gas factory in Saint Roch to light all the workshops of the factory.

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