A catalyst accelerates the reaction, so why not {sutri'a}. Of course catalysts can be political or social as well as chemical, so for a chemical catalyst, {xumsutri'a}
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:57 PM, tijlan
<jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
A lujvo for "catalyst -- a substance that changes the rate of a chemical reaction" might be "nilxumfrasutkezgafxu'i". This looks too long to me.
And I don't think a fu'ivla based on "catalyst" would make a good alternative either, in terms of neutrality, since some major languages such as Chinese, Hindi, and Arabic have words not related to "catalyst"s etymology for this concept.