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Cooking oil can be converted into vegetable ghee by the process of:

A
hydrogenation
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distillation
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crystallisation
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oxidation
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ionisation
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Solution

The correct option is A hydrogenation
Hydrogenation is a reduction reaction which results in an addition of hydrogen (usually as H2). If an organic compound is hydrogenated, it becomes more 'saturated'. Hydrogenation has many applications, but most people are familiar with the reaction as the one used to make liquid oils into semi-solid and solid fats

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