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More fundamentally, chemical catalysts by definition are not consumed by the reactions they catalyze.
Think: a cheese grater. It doesn't react with the cheese, so a few ounces of grater could make hundreds of pounds of grilled cheese.
A hypothetical 300 tons of catalyst is not limited stoichiometrically to how much substrate it would affect.
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More fundamentally, chemical catalysts by definition are not consumed by the reactions they catalyze.
Think: a cheese grater. It doesn't react with the cheese, so a few ounces of grater could make hundreds of pounds of grilled cheese.
A hypothetical 300 tons of catalyst is not limited stoichiometrically to how much substrate it would affect.