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Catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction
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autocatalysis
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Wiktionary
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n. (context chemistry English) catalysis of a reaction by one of its products
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n. catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction [also: autocatalyses (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Autocatalysis \Au`to*ca*tal"y*sis\, n. [Auto- + catalysis.] (Chem.) 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. -- Au`to*cat`a*lyt"ic , a.
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A single chemical reaction is said to have undergone autocatalysis , or be autocatalytic , if one of the reaction products is also a reactant and therefore a catalyst in the same or a coupled reaction. The reaction is called an autocatalytic reaction . ...
Usage examples of autocatalysis.
But autocatalysis and homeostasis enabled simple structures to interact and spin off more complex structures still, until living things emerged, which combined into ever more complicated entities.