photoactivation

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English

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Etymology

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From photo- +‎ activation.

Noun

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photoactivation (usually uncountable, plural photoactivations)

  1. (physics, chemistry) The absorption of energy from a photon in raising a molecule (or chromophore) from the ground state; especially the first stage of photosynthesis in which energy is absorbed by chlorophyll

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