catalytic

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And it was the California Air Resources Board's "technology-forcing regulation" in 1970 that inspired a miraculous invention called the catalytic converter, which turns carbon monoxide and smog-forming nitrogen oxides into harmless gases.

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  1. adjective Of, involving, or acting as a catalyst: "Deregulation's catalytic power . . . is still reshaping the banking, communications, and transportation industries” (Ellyn E. Spragins).

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  • And if we fail to use it as catalytic, we would have failed. —  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on aid versus trade
  • Hidden from view of the crewers by a long thick pipe he'd called a catalytic-balance slifter, she made her way forward. —  Angelmass
  • The second PTP domain (D2) of many classical receptor-like PTPs and the PTP domain of dual-specificity pseudophosphatases of the myotubularin family lack critical residues essential for their catalytic activity —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • "Much like a catalytic converter on an automobile, this new system helps reduce emission levels and other organic pollutants by converting them to water and carbon dioxide." —  Reliable Plant Magazine
  • Managed a group of welders for catalytic-cracker repair; —  MSDN Blogs
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  1. Greek katalutikos, able to dissolve, from katalusis, dissolution; see catalysis.

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  1. = French catalytique = Spanish catalítico, from Greek καταλυτικός, able to dissolve, from *κατάλυτος, verbal adjective of καταλύειν, dissolve: see catalysis and -ic.
 

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