The phrase "catalytic agent" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a substance or agent that speeds up a chemical reaction without being consumed or changed in the process. Example: The enzyme served as a catalytic agent, allowing the reaction to occur at a much faster rate than it would have without its presence.
Mr. Wahid was better as a catalytic agent then as a manager.
These are the virtues of a well-planned formula, which are not to be underestimated; the catalytic agent, however, was the chemistry of the leads.
People may recognise Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle, or Down and Out in Beverly Hills, in this story of how people are saved from the living death of loveless materialism by the introduction of a catalytic agent.
The catalytic agent, though, was the arrival at the museum in 1971 of Wen C. Fong, a highly esteemed art historian at Princeton University, as special consultant for Far Eastern affairs.
For Lenin, then, the communist elite the "workers' vanguard"—was more than a catalytic agent that precipitated events along their inevitable course; it was an indispensable element.
After sparking up a joint with the help of a sympathetic court officer, Me fantasises about his future legacy as the catalytic agent behind "the latest in the long line of landmark race-related cases", Me v the United States of America.
Two specific catalytic agents set off the Progressive movement the agrarian depression of the early 1890s and the financial and industrial depression that began in 1893.
The catalytic agents in desired concentration were used during the operation.
This work presents a preferred approach to fabricate high-quality one-dimensional magnetic materials which have potential applications in electrochemical devices, magnetic sensors, and catalytic agents.
However, the reaction conditions of asymmetric synthesis were harsh and difficult to be controlled and its catalytic agents were so expensive.
Palladium nanoparticles (Pd NPs) are the very good catalytic agents in many coupling reactions, also these are very well biological agents against bacteria and fungus.
