PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTION

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A chemical reaction produced by the action of light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("photochemical reaction" is a kind of...):

chemical reaction; reaction ((chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photochemical reaction"):

light reaction (the first stage of photosynthesis during which energy from light is used for the production of ATP)

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