Definition
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.
