Not quite. The emissions act as an electrically conductive medium. In a roundabout way it's similar to how pure and deionized water is an insulator, but tap water is conductive because of various impurities.

Well, a chemical is introduced and there’s a reaction. We can nitpick about the details but that’s the crux of it,

Imagine coughing up those blasé closing words to a topic of physics that scientists are trying to unravel. "Well, we can nitpick about the details, but that's the crux of it."

Imagine not being able to look at things abstractly; to use a different lens. And instead being lazy and taking everything simply at face value, as is, as it’s spoon fed to you.

The correct reply was: “Yes. Via that lens it makes me wonder if there are not other similar catalysts that we’ve been missing.”

Sorry mate. Small ideas from small minds don’t excite me. Have a nice day.

Interestingly, chemistry is an electrical reaction (electron interactions). So it might be more accurate to say both are mediated through the same underlying force - electromagnetism.