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autocatalysis


  • n  catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction

  • Technologies with this property of perpetual self-accelerated development--sometimes termed "autocatalysis"--create conditions that are unstable, unpredictable and unreliable.
  • One of them was probably autocatalysisthe process by which a substance, as soon as a little of it is formed, speeds the formation of more of itself.

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