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photochemical

American  
[foh-toh-kem-ik-uhl] / ˌfoʊ toʊˈkɛm ɪk əl /

adjective

  1. relating to or produced by the chemical action of light.


photochemical British  
/ ˌfəʊtəʊˈkɛmɪkəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to photochemistry; involving the chemical effects of light

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Mr. Pearson nudges Mr. Wood’s plants and vessels into more abstract territory; Mr. Wood’s renderings of Greek vases humanize Mr. Pearson’s photo-chemical experiments.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2011

The flaws are typical of an age when film stock had an in-built obsolescence, and ones that, when movies were first restored, were subjected to traditional photo-chemical processes.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2010

Light exerts a marked photo-chemical effect on the germicidal velocity of chlorine and hypochlorites.

From Chlorination of Water by Race, Joseph

In symmetrically built heliotropic animals in which the symmetrical muscles participate equally in locomotion, the symmetrical muscles work with equal energy as long as the photo-chemical processes in both eyes are identical.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

Our Relief Plates are engraved by photo-chemical means; are mounted on blocks type-high ready for use on any ordinary press, and will wear longer than the common stereotype plates.

From Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures by Various

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