According to the illustration, the vanadium (V) oxide would be a catalyst.
<h3>What are catalysts?</h3>
Catalysts are substances that are utilized in reactions that are not themselves consumed in reactions but only speed up the rate of the reactions.
Catalysts speed up the rate of reactions by lowering the activation energy of the reactants.
Sulfur dioxide reacts with oxygen to produce sulfur trioxide. The vanadium (v) oxide is not consumed in the reaction. Thus it only serves as a catalyst.
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