(EC2) Catalytic Control (08-10)
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The hero can control the speed at which chemical reactions occur. He can increase or decrease the energies emitted or drained in such reactions by his Power rank number. For example, he could increase the heat, emitted by exothermic reactions like oxidation; he could also increase the chilling effect of endothermic reactions. He can increase or decrease the speed or rate at which reactions occur, like stopping iron from dissolving in acid or causing steel to rapidly transform into rust. The hero can also develop a variety of Power stunts:

• Causing chemical reactions that are normally impossible, such as anything involving inert gases.
• Knocking out self-powered machinery by stopping the reactions that generate their power.
• Inducing suspended animation in a living target by stopping all biochemical activity, especially decay.
• Incapacitating living targets by inducing nausea.
• Increasing the hero's Strength and Endurance by increasing the metabolizing of oxygen and food (or whatever the body uses).
• Collapsing a target by hastening the forces of decay.
• Forming compounds by simply mixing materials together and not needing heat or special conditions.
• Baking without an oven.

The Power can continually affect a target as long as it functions. Any results are permanent if they do not involve a living subject. Effects on a living subject cease five turns after the Power ceases.