catalysis

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  1. noun The action of a catalyst, especially an increase in the rate of a chemical reaction.

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  • For all the paeans to carbon, other elements can form frameworks that look to have extraordinary—and extraordinarily useful—physical properties, for nanoelectronics, catalysis, element separation, “programmable” matter, and a host of other applications The Not-so-Close Cousin What about alternatives to carbon, then? —  Magazine - Analog Science Fiction And Fact - 2007 - Issue 03 - March (v1.0) [lit]
  • They're used by the ton for catalysis, particularly in the petrochemical industry. —  Magazine - Analog Science Fiction And Fact - 2007 - Issue 03 - March (v1.0) [lit]
  • Gaseous pollution control, solid and liquid waste treatments have been commercialized based on incineration, catalysis, adsorption, disposal with landfill, etc. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • These collapses and the errant molecules block access to some adsorption sites, thereby limiting the materials 'full potential for catalysis or for purifying and storing gas molecules such as H —  Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News
  • Technology useful for catalysis, separation and drug delivery —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
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  1. Greek katalusis, dissolution, from katalūein, to dissolve : kata-, intensive pref.; see cata- + lūein, to loosen; see leu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =F. catalyse = Spanish catalísis, from New Latin catalysis, from Greek κατάλύσις, dissolution, from καταλύειν, dissolve, from κατά, down, + λύειν, loose. Cf. analysis.
 

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