catalytic converter

English

Noun

catalytic converter (plural catalytic converters)

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

Synonyms

• Cadillac converter (nonstandard, chiefly Southern US)
• catalyser
• cat

Derived terms

• cat

 

Translations

a chamber which oxidises exhaust gases into carbon dioxide

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