Hardening Vegetable Oils (Margarine) through Hydrogenation | Chemistry | FuseSchool

Hardening Vegetable Oils (Margarine) through Hydrogenation | Chemistry | FuseSchool

Learn the basics about hardening vegetable oils, such as margarine, formed through hydrogenation. How does margarine harden? What is hydrogenation? Find out more in this video!

UPDATED:
1:10 - nickel catalyst instead of a platinum catalyst
2:06 - carbon has 4 bonds (not 5 as in the diagram). A hydrogen should have been removed.


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