1) Catalysis 2) Contact action
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A single chemical reaction is said to have undergone autocatalysis, or be autocatalytic, if the reaction product itself is the catalyst for that reaction. A set of chemical reactions can be said to be `collectively autocatalytic` if a number of those reactions produce, as reaction products, catalysts for enough of the other reactions that the en.....
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• (n.) Self-catalysis; catalysis of a substance by one of its own products, as of silver oxide by the silver formed by reduction of a small portion of it.
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(from the article `food preservation`) The unsaturated fatty acids present in the lipids of many foods are susceptible to chemical breakdown when exposed to oxygen. The oxidation of ...
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A form of catalysis in which one of the products of a reaction serves as a catalyst for the reaction. Before the emergence of protein-based enzymes, which are the principle biological catalysts today, it is believed that a substance, such as RNA, may have served as both a replicator and an autocatal...
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A reaction in which one or more of the products formed acts to catalyze the reaction; beginning slowly, the rate of such a reaction rapidly increases. ... Compare: chain reaction. ... Synonym: autoactivation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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(aw″to-kә-tal´ә-sis) an increase in the rate of a chemical reaction in which a product of the reaction itself hastens or intensifies the rate.
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Au`to·ca·tal'y·sis noun [
Auto- +
catalysis .]
(Chemistry) Self-catalysis; catalysis of a substance by one of its own products, as of silver oxide by the silver formed by reduction of a small portion of it. --
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Type: Term Pronunciation: aw′tō-kă-tal′i-sis Definitions: 1. A reaction in which one or more of the products acts to catalyze the reaction; after beginning slowly, the rate of such a reaction rapidly increases. Synonyms: autoactivation
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[
n] - catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction
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autocatalysis, autocatalytic Catalysis of a reaction by one of its products; also called 'autoactivation'.
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noun catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction
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catalysis caused by a catalytic agent formed during a reaction.
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