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ANTICATALYST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anticatalyst mean?
• ANTICATALYST (noun)
The noun ANTICATALYST has 1 sense:
1. (chemistry) a substance that retards a chemical reaction or diminishes the activity of a catalyst
Familiarity information: ANTICATALYST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(chemistry) a substance that retards a chemical reaction or diminishes the activity of a catalyst
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("anticatalyst" is a kind of...):
inhibitor (a substance that retards or stops an activity)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Antonym:
catalyst ((chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected)
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