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- verb To cause, or to undergo
photodissociation
Etymologies
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photo- + dissociate
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Examples
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It can react with OH to form formaldehyde, or return to CH3O2 in very roughly equal yields, or it can photodissociate to produce methoxy, CH3O.
Passing Gas EliRabett 2010
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Colored species such as the green molecular chlorine, Cl2, absorb visible solar radiation, and break apart, or photodissociate, into individual atoms as the consequence;
Stratospheric Ozone Depletion by Chlorofluorocarbons (Nobel Lecture) 2007
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