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Default EPROM over erasing

Is it possible to damage an EPROM by exposing it to UV light for too
long? What if a portion of the EPROM stays unprogrammed ('FF') and the
chip goes through some program-erase cycles? The unprogrammed area
should fail sooner or later, shouldn't it?