contact action

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymscatalysis

   Broaderchemical process

   Narrowerautocatalysis

Questions about contact action

What does contact action mean?

contact action means "acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction".

What is another word for contact action?

Close synonyms include catalysis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contact action a common word?

contact action is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.