Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the chemical action of light.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or produced by it.
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- adjective chemistry of, relating to, or produced by
photochemistry or byphotochemical reactions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or produced by the effects of light on chemical systems
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Examples
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Indicative of the importance of different chemicals interacting to cause smog, is the term photochemical smog.
Smog 2009
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Because this type of smog forms when chemical reactions take place in the presence of sunlight, it is termed photochemical smog.
QCOnline Metro News 2008
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Puralytics, winner of this year's CleanTech Open, uses photochemical processes work to break down or remove contaminants from water.
Andrew Winston: Innovation in Managing Water Andrew Winston 2011
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On Earth, methane produced by bogs or cows can remain for a decade; on Mars, for reasons that are not fully understood but imply a photochemical destruction process unlike anything now known, the gas is destroyed in under a year.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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On Earth, methane produced by bogs or cows can remain for a decade; on Mars, for reasons that are not fully understood but imply a photochemical destruction process unlike anything now known, the gas is destroyed in under a year.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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Puralytics, winner of this year's CleanTech Open, uses photochemical processes work to break down or remove contaminants from water.
Andrew Winston: Innovation in Managing Water Andrew Winston 2011
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Mixed with pollution from the growing number of heavy industries in northern China, the particles create photochemical smogs in Korea, Japan, and toxic winds that blow across the Pacific to the west coast of the United States, adding the problem of “global dimming” to that of global warming.5
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Ozone is an important tracer of photochemical processes in the atmosphere of Mars.
Ozone on Mars: Two Windows Better Than One | Universe Today 2010
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The team also performed measurements of the ozone abundance over the Syrtis Major region, which will help to constrain photochemical models in this region.
Ozone on Mars: Two Windows Better Than One | Universe Today 2010
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Ozonolysis and photolysis of alkene-terminated self-assembled monolayers on quartz nanoparticles: implications for photochemical aging of organic aerosol particles, J. Park, A.L. Gomez, M.L. Walser, A. Lin, and S.A. Nizkorodov, Phys.
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