dehydrogenate

Questions about dehydrogenate

What does dehydrogenate mean?

dehydrogenate means "remove hydrogen from".

How many syllables are in dehydrogenate?

dehydrogenate has 5 syllables and divides as de-hy-dro-ge-nate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of dehydrogenate?

The recorded antonyms are hydrogenate.

Is dehydrogenate a common word?

dehydrogenate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.