Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of photoprocess
Ice mantles that formed on top of dust grains are photoprocessed by the secondary ultraviolet (UV) field in cold and dense molecular clouds.
2015, R. Martín-Doménech, J. Manzano-Santamaría, G.M. Muñoz Caro, G.A. Cruz-Díaz, Y.-J. Chen, V.J. Herrero, I. Tanarro, “UV photoprocessing of CO2 ice: a complete quantification of photochemistry and photon-induced desorption processes”, in arXiv
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