CONTACT ACTION

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Meaning:

Acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction

Example:

of the top 50 commodity chemicals, 30 are created directly by catalysis and another 6 are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced

Synonyms:

catalysis; contact action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("contact action" is a kind of...):

chemical action; chemical change; chemical process ((chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contact action"):

autocatalysis (catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction)