catalysis

Warburg had shown that this yellow pigment is involved in catalysis of the oxidation of hexose-monophosphoric acid during yeast metabolism.

Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010

I therefore took the opportunity offered to me by many reports, etc. to combat those injurious hypotheses and draw attention to the incomparably greater effectiveness of the simple definition of catalysis based on measurable facts which states that catalysis is a chemical acceleration brought about by the presence of substances which do not appear in the reaction product.

Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture 1966

Inevitably, therefore, I was compelled to the view that the nature of catalysis is not be sought in the inducement of

Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture 1966

Berzelius introduced the name catalysis instead, with the active but unconsumed substance being termed the catalytic substance or catalyst, and the cause underlying the phenomena catalytic force.

Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture 1966

At the same time biology, too, gave closer attention to the problem of catalysis, which is, of course, one of the organism's main agencies for an enormous variety of purposes, and again the kinetic definition proved superior to all other attempted generalizations, some of which were more figurative than objective.

Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture 1966

Even the term catalysis which, after being for long misunderstood, nay despised, is now back in favour, we owe to

Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture 1966

Its necessity emerged quite clearly at that meeting, for in the chemical literature of those days it is not uncommon to encounter the comment "that the name catalysis is not an explanation of these processes", and that comment was to be taken as a reason for rejecting the concept in question.

Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture 1966

“Water-surface interactions are ubiquitous in nature and play an important role in many technological applications such as catalysis and corrosion,” said Greg Kimmel, staff scientist at the Department of Energy lab and lead author of a paper in the current issue Oct. 15 advance online edition of Physical Review Letters.

Wetness-Defying Water | Impact Lab 2005

The method has found several important fields of application, for instance in the study of surface-chemistry processes such as catalysis and corrosion.

Press Release: The 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics 1981

After consistent, continuous research he successfully formulated a principle to describe the nature of catalysis which is satisfactory for the present state of knowledge, namely that catalytic action consists in the modification, by the acting substance, the catalyst, of the rate at which a chemical reaction occurs, without that substance itself being part of the end-products formed.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909 - Presentation Speech 1966