photoproducedadj.
/ˌfəʊtəʊprəˈdjuːst/, /ˌfəʊtəʊprəˈdʒuːst/, U.S. /ˌfoʊdəprəˈd(j)ust/ Particle Physics and Biochemistry.
Produced by the action of light or of a photon.
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spectral1839
actinic1850
photogenic1870
photoproduced1953
1953 Physical Rev. 91 480/2 The cross section obtained in this way is modified principally by the presence of terms describing the multiple scattering of the photo produced mesons.
1961 D. I. Arnon in W. D. McElroy & B. Glass Symp. Light & Life iv. 531 A similar hypothesis that the origin of the photoproduced hydrogen gas in algae is a photodecomposition of an endogenous hydrogen donor was..rejected.
1972 New Phytologist 71 239 There is considerable evidence..that photoproduced reductant is used for a number of reductive biosyntheses.
1973 Physics Bull. July 431/1 A technique to measure the absorption spectra of short lived photoproduced transients, such as excited states of molecules.
2002 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 8631/1 Methane, hydrogen, and bicarbonate nurtured the primitive organisms, with photo-produced ferric iron acting as the electron acceptor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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