prechemical

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ chemical.

Adjective

prechemical (not comparable)

1. 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. […]