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What is hydrogenation? What is its industrial application?

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The addition of hydrogen to an unsaturated compound in the presence of nickel (or palladium) catalyst to obtain a saturated compound is called hydrogenation. Hydrogenation is used in industry to prepare vegetable ghee from vegetable oils. The vegetable oils (like ground nut oil) are unsaturated compounds. When the liquid vegetable oil is heated with hydrogen in the presence of finely divided nickel as catayst, then a saturated solid fat called vegetable ghee is formed. This reaction is called hydrogenation of oils and it can be represented as follows:
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