What is "ions"

Usage examples of "ions".

Its equatorial ion thrusters exhaled fountains of sparkling blue ions, halting its minute drift.

The waft of hyperexcited ions grew vaguer as the wind dissipated the discharge.

When the blast struck the Veil the hyperexcited ions metamorphosed into inert pebbles that dropped to the floor in an impotent clatter.

Again and again, he fired wildly into the corridor, the hyperexcited ions ricocheting off the walls, floor, and ceiling.

As they proceeded, she could hear the thrum of the fusion engines more clearly, could feel the vibrations of the hyperexcited ions through the floor.

Her fierce concentration was stirring ions to life, but slowly, ever so slowly.

He was no longer Nith, however, and the first strike of hyperexcited ions from Nith Nassam struck him full in the chest, drove him to his knees.

Their shock-swords clashed, sending showers of hyperexcited ions sparking toward the ceiling.

Already jolts of stray ions had caused three of her fingers to go numb.

The hot stink of hyperexcited ions was in her nostrils as she sank the shock-sword through muscle, fascia, and organs.

Impaled through the throat, Star-Admiral Iin Mennus was flung violently back until he struck the wall, pinioned there as the hyperex-cited ions boiled his blood to paste.

Just as glucagon mobilizes the glycogen reservoir in the liver, bringing about its breakdown to glucose, which pours into the blood, so the parathyroid hormone mobilizes the calcium stores in bone, bringing about its breakdown to calcium ions in solution, which pours into the blood.

Thus, calcium atoms make up an active metal that would be quite poisonous to living tissue, but calcium ions are much blander and are necessary components of living tissue.

The difference between ordinary atoms and ions is expressed in symbols.

It may be in this fashion that vitamin D encourages the growth of bones, by altering the membrane of bone cells to permit the entry of calcium ions at a greater-than-normal rate.