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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of photolyze.

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Examples

  • Cl2 photolyzes so rapidly that it might as well be two chlorine atoms.

    Surfaces James Killus 2008

  • Methyl glyoxal photolyzes like crazy, and it turned out to be the powerful radical source in the toluene system when we were earlier studying toluene.

    Isoprene James Killus 2007

  • Methyl glyoxal photolyzes like crazy, and it turned out to be the powerful radical source in the toluene system when we were earlier studying toluene.

    Archive 2007-08-01 James Killus 2007

  • Chlorine photolyzes all the way down to yellow light, the chlorine molecule splitting into two chlorine atoms.

    Archive 2007-08-01 James Killus 2007

  • Chlorine photolyzes all the way down to yellow light, the chlorine molecule splitting into two chlorine atoms.

    Swimming Pool Air James Killus 2007

  • Fluorine gas photolyzes into fluorine atoms and if there is something in the universe more reactive than fluorine atoms, I do not know what it is.

    Some Knurdly Background about Lasers I James Killus 2007

  • Molecular chlorine (found in swimming pools) photolyzes in an hour.

    CFC-Ozone Puzzle~ Q&A 2000

  • But peroxyacetyl also reacts with nitric oxide (NO), and that is one of the reactions whereby ozone is generated, by converting NO to NO2, which then photolyzes to ozone (note: the entire system is ‘way complicated, which is why I spent 20 years studying it).

    Archive 2008-04-01 James Killus 2008

  • But peroxyacetyl also reacts with nitric oxide (NO), and that is one of the reactions whereby ozone is generated, by converting NO to NO2, which then photolyzes to ozone (note: the entire system is ‘way complicated, which is why I spent 20 years studying it).

    PAN James Killus 2008

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