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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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But as we would find out, our smog — photochemical smog — made the air taste like poison and look like something you’d put out with the garbage.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Not the good, high-altitude ozone that shields us from dangerous UV light, but bad ozone, hovering right above ground level — stinking, brownish, grayish photochemical smog.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

They targeted a photochemical reaction in which molecules absorb energy from photons and transfer it to a neighbor.

From Science Magazine • May 30, 2024

"However, the four other pulses in mercury had a different isotopic composition, indicating they were mainly driven by Hg input from soil erosion and photochemical reduction."

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024

From 1855 to 1863 he published with Roscoe a series of investigations on photochemical measurements, which W. Ostwald has called the "classical example for all future researches in physical chemistry."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

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