photochemical
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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
With its simple, scalable synthesis, strong light absorption, stable photophysical characteristics, and long lived excited state, the manganese-based material could support future large scale photochemical applications.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2025
They targeted a photochemical reaction in which molecules absorb energy from photons and transfer it to a neighbor.
From Science Magazine ● May 30, 2024
Although there is a multitude of reactions in photographic processes which are brought about by exposure to light, these represent relatively few of the photochemical reactions.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh
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