AUTOCATALYSIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: autocatalyses   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("autocatalysis" is a kind of...):

catalysis; contact action (acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction)

Derivation:

autocatalytic (relating to or proceeding by autocatalysis)

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