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AUTOCATALYSIS
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Irregular inflected form: autocatalyses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("autocatalysis" is a kind of...):
catalysis; contact action (acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction)
Derivation:
autocatalytic (relating to or proceeding by autocatalysis)
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