noun
- Acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction.
- usage: "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: contact action
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