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How effective is catalase?

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Very!

Catalase is an astonishingly fast worker. A single catalase molecule can act on at least 5 million molecules of substrate (hydrogen peroxide) in each second. Some reports have a figure of 40 million.

Carbonic anhydrase is another rapid enzyme, catalyzing some 36 million conversions per second.

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