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CONTACT ACTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction
Example:
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:
catalysis; contact action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("contact action" is a kind of...):
chemical action; chemical change; chemical process ((chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contact action"):
autocatalysis (catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction)
