catalytic

That event was both heartbreaking and catalytic for me.

By the time I got to it, the engine, 02 sensor, and catalytic converter were destroyed.

' This is obviously not true, because the person who stole my catalytic converter most likely did not have a license.

[1] The source of ignition was probably the catalytic converter, or an electrical short/spark.

Blowing gasoline out your tailpipe will ruin your catalytic converter, which you might not care about right now, but will matter if you try to smog your vehicle to sell it.

The driving factor was clean air legislation generally, which mandated the use of catalytic converters in new cars.

I don't expect the general public to know the implementation details of WiFi any more than I expect them to understand how a catalytic converter works.

They "manufacture molecules" all the time, every day, at catalytic rates that would make high-tech manufacturing factories blush.

Unfortunately catalytic cracking is still something of an art or craft rather than a science because its horrifically complicated.

PriusBot would be unable to do much about being loaded on a tilt-tray, taken to a chop-shop and relieved of the various sensors, air bags, catalytic converters and body panels.

General motors is not going to sell more product because catalytic converters cost a few hundred dollars less, but jewelers might and the electronics industry certainly would.

Even if the energy is derived from coal, cleaning the waste products at the factory is easier and is easier to upgrade the filters rather than replacing catalytic converters with better ones on regular cars.

And where humans and profits are involved, plans tend not to involve all failure modes: The explosions in fukushima could have been avoided using catalytic recombinators which are for example mandatory in germany [1].

I remember Fleishmann and Pons announcement back in the late 80's - personally, the gross theory of bringing together Deuterium atoms close enough to create fusion using a catalytic surface still seems plausible to me,even if their experimental results were never supported at "a university without a division I football team.