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AUTOCATALYSIS (autocatalyses)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does autocatalysis mean?
• AUTOCATALYSIS (noun)
The noun AUTOCATALYSIS has 1 sense:
1. catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction
Familiarity information: AUTOCATALYSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
Context examples
Caspase 8 then oligomerizes and is activated via autocatalysis.
(DR3 and DR4/5 Mediated Apoptosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
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