photoproducev.
/ˌfəʊtəʊprəˈdjuːs/, /ˌfəʊtəʊprəˈdʒuːs/, U.S. /ˌfoʊdəprəˈd(j)us/ Particle Physics and Biochemistry.
transitive. To produce by the action of light or of a photon.
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1964 Proc. IEEE 52 140/1 An electron photoproduced at plane x will give rise to the rectangular current pulse.
1985 Science 20 Dec. 1373/1 The CFH system of isolated chloroplasts could photoproduce molecular hydrogen when cysteine was used as the electron source.
2000 Nucl. Instruments & Methods A. 455 50 We describe how to use such photons to photoproduce large quantities of B 0-B 0 mesons and τ +-τ − lepton pairs.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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