Catalysis in organic chemistry: By Paul Sabatier, Memeber of the Institute. Translated by E. Emmet Reid, Johns Hopkins University. xxiv-969 pages, pages with name and subject indexes, 8vo. New York, D. Van Nostrand Company. Price, $5 net

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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1923
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 180 KB
• Volume: 195
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(23)90211-5

✦ Synopsis

The term catalysis in its chemical application was introduced by Berzelius, but was in use in English, at least, as early as 1635, with the general meaning of catastrophe or dissolution.