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Industrial catalysts

Okay kiddo, do you know what a catalyst is? It's something that makes a reaction happen faster, like when you mix baking soda and vinegar to make a volcano. Well, industrial catalysts are like magic ingredients that help make big reactions happen in factories and machines.

Imagine you have a big machine that needs to make a lot of plastic bottles. But the process to make the plastic is too slow without a catalyst. So we add industrial catalysts to the mix and it helps the plastic form faster, so we can make a lot more bottles in the same amount of time.

These industrial catalysts can be made up of different substances, like metals or chemicals. They are specially designed to work with different reactions in different machines.

But here's the best part, once the reaction is over and the machine has made whatever it needed to make, the catalysts are still there! They don't disappear or get used up. So we can reuse the same catalysts over and over again. It's like having a magical helper in the factory that never gets tired.

So, industrial catalysts are like magic helpers that make machines and factories run faster and more efficiently. They're made of special stuff and can be reused over and over again. Pretty cool, huh?
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