A Model for Catalytic Interactions | Catalyst Simulation

Theoretical Background/Context

• Millions of chemical reactions take place during daily life processes every second. 
• Interestingly, enzymes act as vital catalysts that could speed up the chemical reactions by thousands or even millions of times.
• In the absence of these enzymes, some biochemical reactions inside living organisms might happen at a very slow rate, while others would not have taken place at normal temperatures.
• For example, the digestion process aims to break down or digest foods represented in this catalyst simulation experiment by biscuits by the action of stomach acid represented here by soft drinks such as Seven-Up.

Principle of Work

• The presence of digestive enzymes greatly speeds up the process (catalytic reaction) and this is what happens in normal cases in the daily digestion process. 
• In the absence of these, as we will see in catalyst simulation, digestion may not occur at all or occur at a very slow rate that may exceed 24 hours.