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The Benefits of Hydrogenation

In organic chemistry in your textbooks the thing you'll see most often is hydrogen H2 with a metal catalyst like platinum palladium whatever a catalyst is. You basically put hydrogen gas Some kind of metal catalyst to help this happen and that hydrogen gas will bond to Each of the carbons and break the double bond got it. That's called hydrogenation Huh because of the hydrogen because of the Hydrogen? I think they're trying to say that it's bad. So well I don't think it's inherently bad. There's a lot of things in food world that are labeled bad or good that I'm slower to label.

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