Question

What happens when hydrogen is added to a vegetable oil in the presence of nickel ? Name the reaction and write one difference between the physical property of the vegetable oil and the product obtained in this reaction. Write the role of nickel in this reaction.

Answer 1

vegetable oil is unstaturated hydrogen if we add h2 in the presence of nickel to vegetable oil formation of saturated hydrocarbon takes place forming banaspati ghee .
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Answer 2

when hydrogen is added to a vegetable oil in the presence of nickel it change into vegetable ghee .

This process is called hydrogenation.

vegetable oils which have higher melting point.

A catalyst used in the industrial processes of the tallow and fat hydrogenation and in the vegetable oils selective hydrogenation, is a nickel catalyst deposited on a silicate support.