In a manner characteristic of autocatalysis; describing how a process accelerates itself through its own products.
From autocatalytic + -ally (in the manner of). The adverbial form allowing scientists to describe processes that self-accelerate.
When chemists add -ally to -tic adjectives, they're specifying 'in this manner'—it's the professional way of saying 'this reaction gets faster as it goes!'
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