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- adverb In an
autocatalytic manner - adverb Via
autocatalysis
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Examples
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Consumer: Unit that transforms energy quality, stores it, and feeds it back autocatalytically to improve inflow.
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For an example of one reaction that autocatalytically produces an enantiomeric excess, look up the Soai reaction. mmurphy21
Abiogenesis: How plausible are the current models? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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It decays autocatalytically, attacked by the hydrochloric acid that is produced when it begins to decompose.
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Like many plastics, it decays autocatalytically: when it starts to break down, it releases chemicals that attack its own polymer chains.
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In this process, a protein sequence (intein) is autocatalytically split off from a fusion protein generated in a cell culture.
innovations-report 2009
qroqqa commented on the word autocatalytically
If humans weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains
—D. Falk, quoted in Jean Aitchison, 1996, The Seeds of Speech
January 12, 2010