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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.


Other Word Forms

  • non-photochemical adjective
  • photochemically adverb

Example Sentences

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Manganese is more than 100,000 times more common on Earth than ruthenium, yet it has rarely been used successfully in photochemical systems.

From Science Daily

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

From Science Magazine

"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

Its high-energy UV radiation in particular is strongly absorbed by all materials and triggers photochemical reactions of the substances present in the air.

From Science Daily

Researchers from the University of Basel are now going one step further and are demonstrating how the energy efficiency of photochemical reactions can be increased tenfold.

From Science Daily