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Definition of Anticatalyst
1. Noun. (chemistry) a substance that retards a chemical reaction or diminishes the activity of a catalyst.
Definition of Anticatalyst
1. Noun. Any substance that inhibits the activity of a catalyst. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticatalyst
Literary usage of Anticatalyst
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Physical Chemistry by William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis (1916)
"(a — x), and inversely as the amount of anticatalyst (HBr), or — dx _ .a — *
dt ~ ''' -^T which was found to be in agreement with the results. ..."
2. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1918)
"When 1 Casein in small quantity acts as an ' anticatalyst'. After treatment with
dilute alkali the acid ia converted into the silver salt from which II ,S ..."
3. Theories of Organic Chemistry by Ferdinand August Karl Henrich (1922)
"... been discovered that this difference in the behavior of benzene is due to the
presence of small quantities of thiophene which acts as an anticatalyst, ..."
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