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Definition of Dehydrogenate
1. Verb. Remove hydrogen from.
Specialized synonyms: Oxygenise, Oxygenize
Antonyms: Hydrogenate
Definition of Dehydrogenate
1. v. t. To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.
Definition of Dehydrogenate
1. Verb. (chemistry) to remove hydrogen from a substance ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dehydrogenate
1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]
Medical Definition of Dehydrogenate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dehydrogenate
Literary usage of Dehydrogenate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1905)
"... addition of energy afforded by the hydrogénation of free oxygen into hydrogen
peroxide should be sufficient to half dehydrogenate the oxygen of water. ..."
2. The Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish: Including Abstracts of His More by George Wilson (1851)
"... (dehydrogenate) of Cavendish. No one interprets aldehyde, ie dehydrogenated
alcohol, as signifying alcohol in any other than a negative sense, namely, ..."
3. A Manual of Chemistry: On the Basis of Turner's Elements of Chemistry by John Johnston, Edward Turner (1860)
"... as will be seen by an inspection of its formula, is dehydrogenate'd alcohol, —
alcohol from which two atoms of hydrogen have been separated, ..."
4. Illustrations of the Theory and Practice of Ventilation: With Remarks on by David Boswell Reid (1844)
"This element acts in a very different manner from lime, however, its great tendency
being to dehydrogenate, or to subvert the ..."
5. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1897)
"The hatches were 'battened down' and this potent element was left to accomplish
our purpose, viz., to dehydrogenate, and thus decompose the death- breeding ..."
6. A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy: With Their Applications by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1831)
"... the muriatic acid gas, and allowed a new volume of chlorine to be introduced
into the retort, to dehydrogenate the chloric ether by the aid of light. ..."
7. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1879)
"If, therefore, we can dehydrogenate them, or rob them of this spirit, we can
destroy their power for evil. To employ a political figure, chlorine gas is the ..."
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