What is photodisintegration?
A) the heating and ejection of mass from the surface of a normal star by the radiation from an orbiting neutron star
B) the destruction of a star by the pressure of the radiation inside it
C) the splitting apart of atomic nuclei by gamma rays
D) the ejection of a neutron or proton from an atomic nucleus, accompanied by the emission of a gamma ray
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