Hydrogenolysis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    the cleavage of a molecule, especially that of a carbon-carbon bond, with the addition of hydrogen atoms to the fragments countable, uncountable

Etymology

From hydrogen + -o- + -lysis.

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