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photo-
+
cage
Noun
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photocage
(
plural
photocages
)
(
chemistry
,
physics
)
Any of several
molecular
species
that can be
activated
by
light
; they are used especially in
biochemistry
to attach a molecule to a biologically active compound and then study its behaviour once activated.