"Photons" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Discrete concentrations of energy, apparently massless elementary particles, that move at the speed of light. They are the unit or quantum of electromagnetic radiation. Photons are emitted when electrons move from one energy state to another. (From Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 11th ed)
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D017785
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G01.249.705 G01.358.500.505.650.782 G01.590.540.782 G01.750.250.650.782 G01.750.770.578.782
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