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photolyses

photolyses is the plural of photolysis.

photolyses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of photolyse.

Meaning of photolysis

Noun

photolysis (uncountable)

  1. Any chemical reaction in which a compound is decomposed after absorbing a photon.

Meaning of photolyse

Verb

photolyse (third-person singular simple present photolyses, present participle photolysing, simple past and past participle photolysed)

  1. To cause photolysis.
    • Then, fluorophores were photolysed by a high-intensity light pulse and influx was monitored at the initial low beam power.1986, I. Lang et al., “Molecular mobility and nucleocytoplasmic flux in hepatoma cells”, in Journal of Cell Biology, volume 102

Questions about photolyses

What is photolyses the plural of?
Photolyses is the plural of photolysis.

Words near photolyses in the dictionary

  1. photolysable
  2. photolysate
  3. photolysates
  4. photolyse
  5. photolysed
  6. photolyses
  7. photolysing
  8. photolysis
  9. photolyte
  10. photolytes
  11. photolytic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: photolyses (page history and authors); photolysis (page history and authors); photolyse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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