Catalytic
adjective
Something that makes a chemical reaction happen faster or more efficiently.
The platinum in a car's catalytic converter speeds up the reaction which cleans the exhaust gas.
Often appears as...
- catalytic converter
- catalytic process
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Technical
adjective
Something that causes or speeds up a process or event.
His speech was a catalytic event in the civil rights movement.
Often appears as...
- catalytic event
- catalytic role
adjective
Something that makes a chemical reaction happen faster or more efficiently.
The platinum in a car's catalytic converter speeds up the reaction which cleans the exhaust gas.
Often appears as...
- catalytic converter
- catalytic process
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Something that causes or speeds up a process or event.
His speech was a catalytic event in the civil rights movement.
Often appears as...
- catalytic event
- catalytic role
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Use
Often used in scientific contexts; may not be understood by everyone outside these fields.
The enzyme's catalytic action was crucial in the laboratory synthesis.
Pro Tip 2/3Specify Action
Describe how it acts as a catalyst to show its importance in a reaction.
The catalytic compound significantly reduced the time needed for the reaction.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Change
Catalytic means increasing efficiency without being consumed or fundamentally changed.
Despite its catalytic role, the substance was recovered unchanged afterwards.
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Use
Often used in scientific contexts; may not be understood by everyone outside these fields.
The enzyme's catalytic action was crucial in the laboratory synthesis.
Pro Tip 2/3Specify Action
Describe how it acts as a catalyst to show its importance in a reaction.
The catalytic compound significantly reduced the time needed for the reaction.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Change
Catalytic means increasing efficiency without being consumed or fundamentally changed.
Despite its catalytic role, the substance was recovered unchanged afterwards.
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Use
Often used in scientific contexts; may not be understood by everyone outside these fields.
The enzyme's catalytic action was crucial in the laboratory synthesis.
Pro Tip 2/3Specify Action
Describe how it acts as a catalyst to show its importance in a reaction.
The catalytic compound significantly reduced the time needed for the reaction.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Change
Catalytic means increasing efficiency without being consumed or fundamentally changed.
Despite its catalytic role, the substance was recovered unchanged afterwards.
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Video examples
What’s in the air you...
in various trace gas emissions, fundamentally changing the air we all breathe. Many places have already responded with countermeasures. Most cars produced since the 1980′s are equipped with catalytic converters that reduce the emission of carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides.
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Going to the Moon… and...
were going to the moon net and we had other issues in 1970 right right there's fascinations and and unrest on college campuses and all of a sudden people started thinking about Earth's earth right 1972 the catalytic converter is introduced leaded gasses banned DDT
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Bill Gates: The...
what I call the catalytic demand. That alone won't do it, because some of these big projects, like green hydrogen or green aviation fuel require billions in capital expense. But the demand signal from enlightened consumers is very important.
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Economics of climate...
subsidize walking the solution was the car and of course when the car then later on went on to provide more air pollution the solution again was an innovation namely the catalytic
Video examples
What’s in the air you...
in various trace gas emissions, fundamentally changing the air we all breathe. Many places have already responded with countermeasures. Most cars produced since the 1980′s are equipped with catalytic converters that reduce the emission of carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides.
Video examples
Going to the Moon… and...
were going to the moon net and we had other issues in 1970 right right there's fascinations and and unrest on college campuses and all of a sudden people started thinking about Earth's earth right 1972 the catalytic converter is introduced leaded gasses banned DDT
Video examples
Bill Gates: The...
what I call the catalytic demand. That alone won't do it, because some of these big projects, like green hydrogen or green aviation fuel require billions in capital expense. But the demand signal from enlightened consumers is very important.
Video examples
Economics of climate...
subsidize walking the solution was the car and of course when the car then later on went on to provide more air pollution the solution again was an innovation namely the catalytic
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Quote examples
Paul Sabatier
French Clergyman
My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.
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John E. Walker
English Scientist
These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world.
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Frances Arnold
American Scientist
The DNA-encoded catalytic machinery of the cell can rapidly learn to promote new chemical reactions when we provide new reagents and the appropriate incentive in the form of artificial selection.
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Wilhelm Ostwald
German Scientist
Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.
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Ed Begley, Jr.
American Actor
California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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Otto Heinrich Warburg
German Scientist
Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.
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Paul Allen
American Businessman
I'm trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.
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Raheem DeVaughn
American Musician
Footprints On The Moon' plans to inspire and incite positive and catalytic change.
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Paul Sabatier
French Clergyman
My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.
Quote examples
John E. Walker
English Scientist
These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world.
Quote examples
Frances Arnold
American Scientist
The DNA-encoded catalytic machinery of the cell can rapidly learn to promote new chemical reactions when we provide new reagents and the appropriate incentive in the form of artificial selection.
Quote examples
Wilhelm Ostwald
German Scientist
Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.
Quote examples
Ed Begley, Jr.
American Actor
California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
Quote examples
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German Scientist
Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.
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Paul Allen
American Businessman
I'm trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.
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Raheem DeVaughn
American Musician
Footprints On The Moon' plans to inspire and incite positive and catalytic change.
Example 1 of 8
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