Prechemical
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Prechemical is an adjective meaning Before a chemical reaction.
Meaning
Before a chemical reaction.
Example Sentences
From this time until about 10−12 s, in the prechemical phase, some initial reactions and rearrangements of these species occur.
But much remains to be done in understanding the complex physical, prechemical and chemical stages of radiation interactions in even the simplest, biologically relevant, condensed materials.
An implication of this rationale is that a "prechemical" electron transfer occurs prior to the initiating step of carcinogen-biotarget interaction, which can culminate in adduct formation, intercalation, alkylation, etc. […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include preacylation, predecarboxylation, preacylated, chemistical, postsynthetic, chemiexcited.
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