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Breaking down food to get energy requires _____ that help chemical reactions take place.

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Catalysts hope I was a help
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The given blank can be filled with catalysts.

Catalysis refers to the procedure of enhancing the rate of a chemical reaction by supplementing a substance called catalyst. It is not expended in the catalyzed reaction and can spontaneously function regularly. Due to this, only a minute concentration of catalysts are needed to change the rate of reaction in principle.

Usually, the chemical reactions take place briskly in the existence of a catalyst as the catalyst offers an unconventional reaction mechanism with a lesser activation energy in comparison to the non-catalyzed mechanism.