Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 580.
“Chemistry without catalysis would be a sword without a handle, a light without brilliance, a bell without sound.”
Alwin Mittasch, as cited in: Ralph Edward Oesper, "Alwin Mittasch," Journal of Chemical Education (1948), 25, 532.
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