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Chemical reactions that produce molecules that encourage the same reaction to happen again and again are called autocatalytic reactions.

From Science Daily • Sep. 19, 2023

Proteins rarely attack themselves, a process called autocatalytic posttranslation modification, and it is very difficult to predict which proteins will react with themselves and which ones won't.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2022

And since these particular autocatalytic technologies drive whole sectors of society, there is a risk that civilization itself may become unstable, unpredictable and unreliable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many molecules important to life are autocatalytic, and in the soupy ocean and suffocating atmosphere of the young earth their concentration would tend to increase.

From Time Magazine Archive

Technology’s history exemplifies what is termed an autocatalytic process: that is, one that speeds up at a rate that increases with time, because the process catalyzes itself.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond