Dictionary Definition
dehydrogenate v : remove hydrogen from [ant:
hydrogenate]
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English
Verb
to dehydrogenate- to remove hydrogen from a substance
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Extensive Definition
Dehydrogenate is a term used for any material
which can separate hydrogen from any compound.
Materials may consist of enzymes, microwave pulses, etc. which
agitate the element
to separate from its elemental counterpart and hence break down
into individual compounds of hydrogen. Such dehydrogenation can
extract hydrogen from simple water and could plausibly be an
energy storage solution,
in the form of extracting hydrogen fuel from water or other source
materials. For thermodynamic reasons,
such extraction would require more energy than could be recovered
in burning the fuel, but could still be valuable.