Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun autocatalysis

1 sense of autocatalysis

Sense 1
autocatalysis -- (catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction)
       => catalysis, contact action -- (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")