prechemical
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- Before a chemical reaction.
- 2008, Michael G. Stabin, Fundamentals of Nuclear Medicine Dosimetry, page 173:
- From this time until about 10−12 s, in the prechemical phase, some initial reactions and rearrangements of these species occur.
- 2012, William A. Glass, Matesh N. Varma, Physical and Chemical Mechanisms in Molecular Radiation Biology, page 100:
- 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.
- 2021, Kirk T. Kitchin, Carcinogenicity, page 253:
- 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. […]