What Is Photodisintegration

Multiple Choice

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