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A Catalyst
A catalyst is a substancc that alters the speed of a chcmical reaction
without itself undergoing any chcmical changc, usually only a small
quantity of it is required.
Catalysts arc usually specific in action; thus, a catalyst for one reaction
is more often than not useless for any other reaction. They arc extremely
important substances not only in the laboratory but also in chcmical industry
and in biological systems. Thus, the manufacture of sulphuric acid, ammonia
and margarine involves the application of catalysts, the most of the chcmical
reactions that occur in our bodies arc regulated by these substances. In
biological systems substances callcd enzymes function as catalysts, c. g.,
specific enzymes arc used to aid the digestion of food in the stomach.
Chemists have discovered the great majority o f reactions that procccd
without catalysts. But there are almost innumerable other reactions that
cannot be practically effected without a catalyst.
The phenomenon in which a relatively small amount of a foreign material,
callcd a catalyst, augments the rate of a chcmical reaction is callcd catalysis.
A catalyst provides the possibility of new elementary processes taking
place, but it is not consumed during the reaction. If wc cannot have it
regenerated, there is no catalysis.
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1. A catalyst is a substancc that changes the rate of a chcmical reaction.
2. A catalyst undergoes little changcs in the reaction. 3. Catalysts arc
important both in laboratory and in industry. 4. Enzymes arc catalysts for
biological systems. 5. No reaction can procccd without a catalyst.
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