Sample sentences for CATALYTIC

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relating to or causing or involving catalysis (acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction)

The car's catalytic converter needs adjusting.

catalytic reactions
Probably second catalytic.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
Perhaps, too, the fact that she was new to their world acted as a sort of catalytic agent to precipitate out all their old reservations about one another.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
She knew what happened when you put a gun in the hand of a troubled kid, or an angry husband, or a battered wife-she'd defended those clients too many times to dismiss that kind of catalytic reaction.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
I almost had it when Dad flung a catalytic converter.
Tara Westover -- Educated
Second catalytic ....
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
At the moment, the lab was attempting to develop a catalytic reaction as a substitute for molecular construction so that large numbers of molecules would stack themselves into the right arrangement.
Cixin Liu -- The Three-Body Problem

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