1. catalytic - Noun
2. catalytic - Adjective
Relating to, or causing, catalysis.
An agent employed in catalysis, as platinum black, aluminium chloride, etc.
Source: Webster's dictionaryCalifornia has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction. Ed Begley, Jr.
I'm trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields. Paul Allen
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. Wilhelm Ostwald
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. John E. Walker
Life does not depend on the magic of Watson-Crick base pairing or any other specific template-replicating machinery. Life lies ... in the property of catalytic closure among a collection of molecular species. Stuart Kauffman
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