photochemistry

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Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os

Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos

Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)

Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)

Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.

English photo-

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Hellenic *-mə

Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)

Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.

Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.

Medieval Latin alchēmia

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Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.

New Latin chimiabor.

Middle French chymie

French chimie

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istabor.

French -iste

French chimistebor.

English chemist

Middle English -re, -ri, -rie, -ry, -rye

English -ry

English chemistry

English photochemistry

From photo- + chemistry.

Noun

photochemistry (usually uncountable, plural photochemistries)

1. (chemistry) The study of photochemical reactions.

   Hypernyms: chemistry < physical science < natural science < science

   Coordinate terms: photophysics; radiochemistry

   • 2019 November 11, Ashley Strickland, “What makes a planet potentially habitable”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “3D photochemistry plays a huge role because it provides heating or cooling, which can affect the thermodynamics and perhaps the atmospheric composition of a planetary system,” Chen said.

Related terms

• photochemical

Translations

study of photochemical reactions

• Finnish: fotokemia, valokemia
• French: photochimie (fr) f
• Hungarian: fotokémia (hu)
• Irish: fótaiceimic f
• Italian: fotochimica (it) f
• Portuguese: fotoquímica (pt) f
• Spanish: fotoquímica (es) f