The phrase "a common catalyst" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a widely recognized factor or agent that triggers or accelerates a process or change.
Example: "In many social movements, a common catalyst is the collective desire for justice and equality."
Alternatives: "a frequent trigger" or "a shared impetus".
Hot weather has been a common catalyst.
A common catalyst for wrongful behavior is common to every industry: blind devotion to a boss.
Village incorporations are rare in New York State — there have been eight in the past two decades — but housing disputes are a common catalyst.
Chang and his UC Berkeley colleagues worked with a common catalyst, molybdenite, that is less expensive than platinum and of increasing interest as a fuel cell catalyst.
The influence of stress modes and comminution conditions on the effectiveness of particle size reduction of a common catalyst support; γ-Alumina is examined through a comparative assessment of three different mill types.
As a common catalyst support in DMFC, carbon black suffers from corrosion and, at the same time, decreases the durability and stability of the catalyst itself.
Dr. Wachtershauser has developed a quite different concept: that prebiotic reactions occurred not in solution but on a surface, probably of some common catalyst like the ores of iron and nickel.
Platinum (Pt) is the common catalyst used in a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC).
EL is a model compound for the alkyd resin in alkyd paints, Co-EH is a common drying catalyst for alkyd paints, and [Mn acac 3] and the [Mn acac 3]/bpy combination are potential new drying catalysts.
The most common catalyst precursors used in the reaction are listed as well as the analytical techniques employed in characterizing and quantifying gas, liquid and solid samples.
Especially, in acidic electrolyte, the hydrogen production rate of this new designed catalyst with Pt loaded on FTO (TiO2-Pt/FTO) reaches 2.4 times that of the common catalyst with Pt loaded on TiO2 (Pt/TiO2-FTO).
