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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ionize
verb
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▪ By a variety of plausible means much of these gases can escape from Io and become dissociated and ionized.
▪ Hypocalcemia A decrease in the concentration of ionized calcium precipitates the clinical picture of hypocalcemia.
▪ If the serum albumin concentration is normal, the total serum calcium level reflects the ionized calcium concentration.
▪ In addition to cancer inductions, ionizing radiation may have significant effects on pre-natal development and on genetic or hereditary factors.
▪ Its overall effect is to raise serum ionized calcium levels and lower serum phosphorus levels.
▪ The binding is reversible so that factors that decrease the protein concentration will increase the ionized fraction of calcium in the blood.
▪ The idea behind the ion motor is to make use of the electrical properties of ionized atoms.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ionize

ionize \i"on*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ionized; p. pr. & vb. n. Ionizing.] (Physics, Chemistry) To convert (an atom or molecule) into ions, e. g. by dissolving in water, by reaction with acid or alkali, or by interaction with ionizing radiation. See ionization.

ionize

ionize \ionize\ v. i. 1. (Physics, Chemistry) to dissociate into ions, as by dissolution in water or another polar solvent.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ionize

1896, from ion + -ize. Related: Ionized; ionizing.

Wiktionary
ionize

vb. (context chemistry physics English) To dissociate atoms or molecules into electrically charged species; to be thus dissociated.

WordNet
ionize
  1. v. become converted into ions [syn: ionise]

  2. convert into ions [syn: ionise]

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Usage examples of "ionize".

The borer, really just a pocket fusion torch, worked by vaporizing and ionizing a small percentage of the rock.

Rising through the ionized clouds was a cluster of fiery ellipsoids, vessels shaped out of sheets of flame and controlled thermal energy.

For around two decades, evidence has been mounting that hormesis holds true also for ionizing radiation.

It shone with the strange dim green of ionized nebular gases, and the dark spreading wings of it blotted out the stars of Ophiuchus, and slowly grew to hide the Serpent and even the Scorpion.

Frictional heating surrounded the racing orbiter with a blaze of ionized gases.

They were in radio blackout, twelve long minutes of silence when the friction of reentry ionizes the air around the orbiter, cutting off all communications.

After the unusual chemistry was documented and all the data collected that I analyzed, the science team studying Sirius B swept the area with fully ionizing Xenon-Chloride excimer lasers and vaporized all the debrisincluding the wispsto clear the path for their probes.

On the Moon, though, the surface is dangerous: big temperature swings between sunlight and shadow, ionizing radiation constantly sleeting in from the Sun and stars, micrometeoroids peppering the ground and sandpapering everything exposed to them.

The ionizing ultraviolet that spurred their development and provides them energy also photodissociates them, and they play a game of Scylla and Charbydis with their environment.

Those jets of ionized molecular gas generated by the protostars, those Herbig-Haro formations?

Plasma sail -- I checked the ref, found screeds about the system, a vast electromagnetic field enclosing a spheroid of ionized gas that interacted with the solar photon flux like a lightsail.

The kzin had launched screeners and then ionized them with a conversion blast to blank out the human sensors.

Of course there is the stereometer, which I designed to insure the three dimensional effect and the polychromatic regulation which governs the ionized metallic particles.

F2 that threw out vast quantities of ionized radiation at all times, and right now it was at the peak of a sunspot cycle.

We fell among the stars of the Trapezium, which glowed with the lovely green of interstellar ionized oxygen.