What is "catalytic"

Usage examples of "catalytic".

However, my specialties include meal preparation, catalytic fuel conversion, enzymatic composition breakdown, chemical diagnostic programming, and bacterial composting acceleration.

The results indicated that certain components of both satellites had acquired a kind of resistance to the catalytic corrosion, and in a way so narrowly defined, so specific, that one could speak of an immunological reaction by analogy to living organisms and microbes.

We call this catalysis, catalytic action, the action of presence, or by what learned name we choose.

They were cold as eels, but two quick twists started the catalytic reaction and they began to warm.

It swung us above the dim-lit tanks and tangled pipes of the catalytic plant that converted the frozen gases of the asteroid into fuel for nuclear rockets and drinking water for us.

It will react with oxygen only in the presence of some catalytic agent, and then only with great difficulty.

But it was only a catalytic agent, affecting his body not transporting it.

Unless you know the catalytic agent and the environment, method and period of hardening, you can study the finished metal until your mind congeals without learning its secrets.

We know he's not been keeping up with the scientific literature in any field except catalytic chemistry, and no one thinks in a vacuum.

I wonder if you realize the powerfully catalytic effect you tend to have in all matters in which you .

And, however little in its feature and language the foreground may seem to take color of it, I shall always believe that the consecration of the rivers and paths, by explorations and ministries that were for the most part as unselfish as France's scholarship is to-day, must in some subtle way have had such a potency as the catalytic substances which work miracles in matter and yet are beyond the discerning of the scientist.

Mihir wasn't the greatest actor, but the bicycle shop with its autoclaves and catalytic bonders was incredibly useful.

So there were particulate beds to separate dusts and aerosols, activated charcoal to keep out heavier contaminants, chemi-sorbant beds to remove nitrogen, sulphur compounds, halogens and metal hybrids, and catalytic burners to oxidize anything that couldn't be absorbed.

Owing to some highly refined catalytic carbon process they didn't look as though they were going to bum out.

The phase change takes place through the whole body of the gas almost instantaneously, with the nodules apparently serving as a catalytic agent for the condensation.