dehalogenation
/diːˌheɪlədʒəˈneɪʃən/noun
dehalogenation is a noun meaning “The act or process of removing halogen (usually a pair of atoms) from a molecule; any reaction that does this” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-H-A-L-O-G-E-N-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dehalogenation is dehalogenations.
What does dehalogenation mean?
noun
- 1
The act or process of removing halogen (usually a pair of atoms) from a molecule; any reaction that does this.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce dehalogenation?
- UK /diːˌheɪlədʒəˈneɪʃən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of dehalogenation
- dehalogenations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is dehalogenation?
Dehalogenation appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does dehalogenation come from?
By surface analysis, dehalogenate + -ion, or, by surface analysis, de- + halogenation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).