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What sets things in motion
Answer for the clue "What sets things in motion ", 8 letters:
catalyst
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A catalyst is a substance which increases the rate of a chemical reaction. Catalyst may also refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"substance which speeds a chemical reaction but itself remains unchanged," 1902, formed in English (on analogy of analyst ) from catalysis . Figurative use by 1943.
Usage examples of catalyst.
All sorts of atoms can turn out to be good catalysts or coenzymes, especially heavies.
The outsurge of fuel, no longer molecularly oriented, and removed from contact with the negative catalyst layers of tank and fuel lines, will explode.
The peroxide or superoxide was split by means of a catalyst in a decomposer and the resulting mixture of oxygen and water used as a propulsion jet in rockets or as the power source for a turbine: the Walter turbine.
But it was the unsterilized catalysts that were supposed to be the only really effective ones.
Better than the sweet air of Pennsylvania, and all the hidden allergens and catalysts it might be carrying.
Archenomen ever learned that he and Alaire were Bards, it could be a catalyst for war.
Vanya dined alone, and so preoccupied was the Bishop that he might have been eating sausages along with his Field Catalysts instead of the delicacies of peacocks tongue and lizards tail which he barely tasted and never noticed were underdone.
The catalysts who have abandoned the laws of our Order are growing in popularity and in numbers.
Chastise Sharakan, punish the rebellious catalysts, eliminate the Sorcerers of the Dark Arts, rid ourselves of a Dead Prince.
A large kingdom lying well to the north of the Outland, Sharakan was preparing for war and had incurred the wrath, and fear, of the catalysts by daring to seek out the Sorcerers of the Dark Art and engage their help.
The Order of catalysts had kept the peace among the various kingdoms of Thimhallan for centuries.
Weapons of evil, they were called by the catalysts, demonic creations of the Dark Art of Technology.
I doubt they would since there are hundreds of catalysts coming and going from the Cathedral every day, it would take them months to track down Lord Whoever He Is and discover the truth.
Having spent fifteen years in the Cathedral, Saryon had spent many evenings watching the line of newly arrived catalysts shuffle up the crystal stairs and enter the crystal doors.
The noble lady was followed by a party of catalysts from the Font, gliding in through Earth Gate in their winged carriages.