use catalyst in a sentence of your own.?

Answer 1

My desire to teach my children the value of education was the catalyst in my application to and, completion of college.

Answer 2

This question was a catalyst in me getting two points on yahoo answers.

Answer 3

Drinking green tea is a catalyst for the burning of calories.

Answer 4

seeing her husband beat her child mercilessly was the catalyst for martha's decision to end the marriage.

rosa parks' act of civil disobedience was the catalyst of the widespread bus boycott in alabama.

the forensic detective discovered that the catalyst of the explosion was a small shampoo bottle filled with ethanol.


EDIT: "catalyst" is a multiple meaning word. it may refer to a chemical reagent involved in a reaction that causes the reaction to occur speedily, OR it may refer to a significant action that caused a chain of events or a particular important event to occur.

Answer 5

The CIA's misinformation on Iraq's WMD's was the catalyst in Bush's decision to defy the rest of the world and invade Iraq.

Answer 6

Methyl ethyl ketone peroxide is a catalyst.
A catalyst is something that its presence can invoke a reaction or change without altering its own state, or itself!
Some people do NOT know English!