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Definition of Autocatalytic
1. Adjective. Relating to or proceeding by autocatalysis.
Definition of Autocatalytic
1. Adjective. (context: chemistry of a reaction) catalyzed by one of its own products ¹
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Definition of Autocatalytic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Autocatalytic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Autocatalytic
Literary usage of Autocatalytic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"It may be mentioned that the whole of growth is an autocatalytic process. ...
It is because of the presence of these autocatalytic substances that foods ..."
2. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1921)
"The whole body may therefore be said to be determined by a limiting autocatalytic
reaction and as such the rate of growth of the mass of the body should ..."
3. Senescence and Rejuvenescence by Charles Manning Child (1915)
"Enriques ('09), in a critique of the autocatalytic theory of growth, has emphasized
the fact that in consequence of differentiation a "dilution" of the ..."
4. Modelling in Aquatic Chemistry by Ingmar Grenthe, Ignasi Puigdomenech, Bert Allard (1997)
"autocatalytic reactions As we saw in Section XI.3.1, CA can be used to model ...
The reactions of interest here contain autocatalytic steps, in which the ..."
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