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Definition of Contact action
1. Noun. Acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction. "Of the top 50 commodity chemicals, 30 are created directly by catalysis and another 6 are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced"
Specialized synonyms: Autocatalysis
Generic synonyms: Chemical Action, Chemical Change, Chemical Process
Derivative terms: Catalytic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contact Action
Literary usage of Contact action
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Metamorphic Geology: A Text-book by Charles Kenneth Leith, Warren Judson Mead (1915)
"Whether these conditions can simulate the results of the more intense anamorphism
of dynamic and contact action is open to question. ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1898)
"... mild a degree of contact-action is required 10 bring about certain very definite
and characteristic effects. I have compared these Whin Sill rocks over ..."
3. South African Journal of Science by South African association for the advancement of science (1904)
"Curiously enough, up to that time all proposals for utilising the contact action
for the making of sulphuric acid had, with only one single exception (Piria ..."
4. Report (1913)
"He called this "contact action" a designation which is in every way as appropriate
... Let us consider briefly this phenomenon, contact action or catalysis. ..."
5. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1858)
"These facts are quite consistent with the various instances of contact action
already referred to. In fact, all kinds of amorphous sulphur are converted by ..."
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