catalytic converter

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: cat‧a‧lyt‧ic con‧vert‧er

Noun

catalytic converter (plural catalytic converters)

1. (automotive) A chamber containing a finely divided platinum catalyst in which carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from vehicle exhaust are oxidized to carbon dioxide.

   Synonyms: (chiefly Southern US, often humorous, nonstandard) Cadillac converter, cat, catalyser

Derived terms

• cat

Translations

chamber in which carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from vehicle exhaust are oxidized into carbon dioxide

• Czech: katalyzátor (cs) m
• Danish: katalysator c
• Dutch: katalysator (nl) m
• Estonian: katalüüsneutralisaator
• Finnish: katalysaattori (fi), katti (fi)
• French: pot catalytique (fr) m
• Galician: catalizador m
• German: Katalysator (de) m
• Greek: καταλύτης (el) m (katalýtis)
• Hungarian: katalizátor (hu)
• Icelandic: efnahvarfi m, hvarfakútur m
• Macedonian: катализа́тор m (katalizátor)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: katalysator (no) m

  Nynorsk: katalysator m

• Polish: katalizator (pl) m
• Portuguese: catalisador (pt) m, conversor catalítico m
• Russian: каталити́ческий конве́ртер m (katalitíčeskij konvérter)
• Swedish: katalysator (sv) c, katalytisk avgasrenare c

Further reading

• catalytic converter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia