To remove hydrogen atoms from a chemical compound, usually to create a double bond or change the substance's properties.
From de- + hydrogen + -ate (verb suffix). Early 20th-century chemical terminology for the reaction process catalyzed by dehydrogenases.
Dehydrogenation turns single bonds into double bonds—it's like removing scaffolding to reveal a tighter, stronger structure in a molecule!
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