Crossword clues for ionization
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ionization \I`on*i*za"tion\, n. (Elec. Chem.) the process of converting neutral atoms or molecules into ions. The process may occur by dissolving an ionic substance in a dissociating solvent, such as water, or by adding or subtracting an electron to or from an atom or molecule. The latter process occurs, for example, in an electron beam in a mass spectrometer and by interaction of substances with ionizing radiation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1891; see ionize + -ation.
Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry physics English) any process that leads to the dissociation of a neutral atom or molecule into charged particles ions; the state of being ionized
WordNet
n. the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge); "the ionization of a gas" [syn: ionisation]
the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas [syn: ionisation]
Wikipedia
Ionization is the process by which an atom or a molecule acquires a negative or positive charge by gaining or losing electrons to form ions, often in conjunction with other chemical changes. Ionization can result from the loss of an electron after collisions with subatomic particles, collisions with other atoms, molecules and ions, or through the interaction with light. Heterolytic bond cleavage and heterolytic substitution reactions can result in the formation of ion pairs. Ionization can occur through radioactive decay by the internal conversion process, in which an excited nucleus transfers its energy to one of the inner-shell electrons causing it to be ejected.
Usage examples of "ionization".
The ionization detectors had given no warning because the Molt was already sited, a picket waiting near the Oltenian base on a likely course of advance.
Santana in Southern California, the Sharav in Israel and other such winds around the globe, show that the positive ionization that causes the feelings in the bones, arrives several days before the winds and weather fronts arrive.
Variances in absorption rate, bioavailability, protein binding, receptor-subtype mechanisms, efferent nerve equations, Meldrum models, gangloid ionization, ribosome protein synthesis, Cell Cleaner interaction rates-no one person could possibly have processed it all.
Ask a pair of geochemists how something like this works, and they will start talking about isotopic abundances and ionization levels with an enthusiasm that is more endearing than fathomable.
Lots of old valve-radio parts, whirring cogs and clicking mechanisms, all beavering away at the ionization of beta particles, thus creating a positronic catalyst, which bombarded an isotope with gamma radiation, giving rise to galvanic variations and the transperambulation of pseudo-cosmic anti-matter.
Now your standard engine, said Paul, who had crawled back in through a hole beneath Jims back fence, your standard warp-drive engine, functions through the ionization of beta particles creating a positronic catalyst, which bombards the isotope with gamma radiation, giving rise to galvanic variations and the transperambulation of pseudo-cosmic antimatter.
Any organic impurities were driven off by heating, and a carrier gas transported the sample through a separation column and into a Flame Ionization Detector.
The degree of ionization in the room was constantly changing, too.
We'll have strong forward scattering, tons of ionization, and God knows what secondary effects.
And anyway, the main doors are closed and the Womb is hermetically sealed in the event of the next dawn bringing the ionization effect.
These nights interplanetary space rippled with the strange lights of war, and the atmosphere glowed with ionization from shock waves, beamed radiation, fusion explo.
These nights interplanetary space rippled with the strange lights of war, and the atmosphere glowed with ionization from shock waves, beamed radiation, fusion explosions .
Most detectors make use of about two microcuiies of americium-241, which is used to make the air in the detector's so-called ionization chamber electrically conductive.
Calhoun did not need, for example, to read off the CO2 content in the ship's air, the rate of air-renewal, the ionization constant, the barometric pressure and the humidity and temperature to know that the air of the ship was right.
Maybe ionization caused by the storm, turning the whole sky into some sort of fluorescing neon tube?