Crossword-Solution: CATALYST 8 letters, 45 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Without impairing in any way the responsibilities of our States, localities, communities, or families, the Federal government can and should serve as an effective-catalyst in dealing with this problem.

And we all realize that our responsibility to be the catalyst for peace in the region does not end with the successful conclusion of this war.

This is the reaction: NH_{3} + 4O --> HNO_{3} + H_{2}O ammonia oxygen nitric acid water The catalyst used to effect this combination is the metal platinum in the form of fine wire gauze, since the action takes place only on the surface.

The reaction is: 2Na_{2}CO_{3} + 4C + N_{2} = 2NaCN + 3CO sodium carbon nitrogen sodium carbon carbonate cyanide monoxide The iron here acts as the catalyst and converts two harmless substances, sodium carbonate, which is common washing soda, and carbon, into two of the most deadly compounds known to man, cyanide and carbon monoxide, which is what kills you when you blow out the gas.

Carrying the process further with the aid of a little acid or other catalyst it takes up water and goes over into a sugar, dextrose, commonly called "glucose." Expressed in chemical shorthand this reaction is C_{6}H_{10}O_{5} + H_{2}O --> C_{6}H_{12}O_{6} starch water dextrose This reaction is carried out on forty million bushels of corn a year in the United States.