catalyst converter

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• Catalyst (disambiguation) — Catalyst may refer to: Chemistry * Catalyst in chemistry * Catalyst (museum), a hands on science centre and chemical industry museum in Widnes in Cheshire in England [http://www.catalyst.org.uk/index.htm] Music, television and literature *… …   Wikipedia

• catalyst — /kat l ist/, n. 1. Chem. a substance that causes or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected. 2. something that causes activity between two or more persons or forces without itself being affected. 3. a person or thing that… …   Universalium

• catalyst bed — A layer of catalyst coated material such as pellets or ceramic in a catalytic converter through which the gases pass …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• catalyst charge — A catalyst coated material such as pellets or ceramic in a catalytic converter …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• catalyst container — A housing of a catalytic converter. Also called a converter shell …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• catalyst indicator — A light on the instrument panel which glows when a prescribed distance has passed in order to remind the driver to have the catalytic converter replaced …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• Catalytic converter — A catalytic converter (colloquially, cat or catcon ) is a device used to reduce the toxicity of emissions from an internal combustion engine. First widely introduced on series production automobiles in the US market for the 1975 model year to… …   Wikipedia

• pellet-type catalytic converter — The first type of automotive catalytic converter, introduced in the USA in 1975. It consisted basically of a sheet steel catalyst container surrounded by thermal insulation and a sheet steel outer shell. The catalyst container was fitted with one …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• catalytic converter — A pollution control device found on the exhaust system of all cars since its introduction in 1974 which acts like an afterburner to reburn unburned gas in the tail pipe. It looks like a small muffler and is usually made of stainless steel. It… …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• catalytic converter — an antipollution device in an automotive exhaust system that contains a catalyst for chemically converting some pollutants in the exhaust gases, as carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons, and oxides of nitrogen, into harmless compounds. [1960 65] …   Universalium

• reducing catalyst — A catalyst such as rhodium which converts nitrogen oxides into harmless nitrogen and oxygen in a reducing catalytic converter. Compare oxidizing catalyst …   Dictionary of automotive terms