To remove sulfur or sulfur compounds from a material through a chemical process.
From de- + sulfur + -ate (verb suffix). Technical term from industrial chemistry, more formal variant of desulfur.
Desulfuration in steel-making is so important that entire industrial processes were invented just to remove those last traces of sulfur, making the steel stronger and less brittle.
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