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Old April 10th, 2005, 00:17
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Not really. The definition of a catalyst includes the characteristic that at the end of the reaction, the catalyst is either still there or has been replaced by an identical molecule. The catalyst can change during the reaction as long as you end up with an identical copy of it afterwards.