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Speeds up the wedding without becoming part of the marriage.
means The process by which a substance speeds up a chemical reaction without being consumed or permanently changed by it.
from Borrowed from Greek katalysis, meaning 'dissolution' or 'loosening,' built from kata- ('down, completely') plus lyein ('to loosen, release'). The Greeks used it for things like dissolving an army or breaking up a truce. Chemists in the 19th century repurposed the word for substances that 'loosen' a reaction into happening faster — fittingly, the word itself got loosened from its original sense and set to a new purpose.
- stays unchanged
- comes out exactly as it went in
- enzymes do it
- your body runs on biological catalysts constantly
- industrial backbone
- makes most of the world's fertilizer and fuel
- lowers barrier
- doesn't change the destination, just shortens the trip