photodissociableadj.
/ˌfəʊtə(ʊ)dᵻˈsəʊʃ(ɪ)əbl/, /ˌfəʊtə(ʊ)dᵻˈsəʊsɪəbl/, U.S. /ˈˌfoʊdoʊdəˈsoʊʃ(i)əb(ə)l/ Chemistry.
Susceptible to photodissociation.
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1967 Biochem. 6 1216/1 All the other ferrohemoglobin–ligand complexes, although photodissociable.., have a much lower quantum yield.
1979 Nature 11 Oct. 503/2 Photodissociable haemoproteins were apparently protected from photodissociation in the spinning cell.
1993 Arch. Microbiol. 160 87/1 This may be the ‘445 nm pigment’, a photodissociable CO-binding membrane haemoprotein.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1967- to loll it
- to loll up
- to long away
- to loo the board
- to look a etc in the face
- to look a gift horse in the mouth
- to look a given horse in the mouth
- to look a person in the eye
- to look a person in the eyes
- to look a person in the face
- to look a person's water
- to look about
- to look about one
- to look adoyle
- to look after
- to look after number one
- to look after one's fences
- to look again
- to look against
- to look againward
- to look ahead
- to look alive
- to look aloft
- to look alow
- to look around