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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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