Definition of Photochemical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or produced by the effects of light on chemical systems.

Partainyms: Photochemistry
Derivative terms: Photochemistry

Definition of Photochemical

1. a. Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or produced by it; as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina.

Definition of Photochemical

1. Adjective. (chemistry) of, relating to, or produced by photochemistry or by photochemical reactions ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Photochemical

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Photochemical

1. Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or produced by it; as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina. Origin: Photo- + chemical. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Photochemical

photocarrier
photocarriers
photocatalysed
photocatalysis
photocatalyst
photocatalysts
photocatalytic
photocatalyzed
photocathode
photocathodes
photocell
photocells
photocenter
photoceptor
photoceramic
photochemical (current term)
photochemical exchange
photochemical reaction
photochemical reactions
photochemical smog
photochemical smogs
photochemically
photochemist
photochemistry
photochemists
photochemotherapy
photochirogenesis
photochromatic
photochromic
photochromic lens

Literary usage of Photochemical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1907)
"The Law of photochemical Action. — One generalization of considerable value has thus far been reached as the result of the work done in the field of ..."

2. The Chemical Effects of Alpha Particles and Electrons by Samuel Colville Lind (1921)
"photochemical Equivalence Law. 54. Einstein's Application of the Quantum Theory to photochemical Action. The inclusion of this subject, which does not ..."

3. The Elements of Physical Chemistry by Harry Clary Jones (1915)
"The Law of photochemical Action. — One generalization of considerable value has thus far been reached as the result of the work done in the field of ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1856)
"photochemical Researches, with reference to the Laws of the Chemical Action ... The first substances examined in their photochemical relations were aqueous ..."

5. Theoretical and Physical Chemistry by Samuel Lawrence Bigelow (1912)
"photochemical Absorption. When radiant energy is absorbed by a substance, ... When this last conversion occurs, we have an instance of " photochemical ..."

6. Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry by Alfred Walter Stewart (1908)
"But if we expose ethylene derivatives to photochemical action, we shall find ... photochemical Decompositions and Syntheses. It may, at the first glance, ..."

7. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"In its essentials this hypothesis involves the behavior of two processes: one, a reversible photochemical reaction; the other, an ordinary, simple, ..."

8. Outlines of General Chemistry by Wilhelm Ostwald (1890)
"CHAPTER III LAWS OF photochemical ACTION IT follows from the fact that every ... This is a fundamental question for all photochemical measurements, ..."

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