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If an electrically charged particle passes through the tube, it ionizes atoms of gas in its immediate vicinity.

Georges Charpak obituary Frank Close 2010

The atmospheric changes before an earthquake are believed to be triggered by the release of radon gas - which is colorless and odorless - below the surface that then ionizes and heats the surrounding air.

Scientists Exploring Quake Warning Signals 2011

The atmospheric changes before an earthquake are believed to be triggered by the release of radon gas - which is colorless and odorless - below the surface that then ionizes and heats the surrounding air.

Scientists Exploring Quake Warning Signals 2011

Argon is also valuable for the specific way it ionizes and emits light.

Argon 2009

This evaporates or ionizes the outer layer of the material to form a plasma crown that expands, generating an inward-moving compression front or implosion that heats up the inner layers of material.

Nuclear fusion power 2009

She used it solely on inanimate objects, the gas-filled tubes that glow with different colors when the coil ionizes the gases.

Freshwater: Dec 3 & 4, 2009, sessions - The Panda's Thumb 2009

Its extreme temperature of at least 200,000 K and possibly up to 400,000 K ionizes the gas in the nebula, which is itself composed of ejecta from the star as it shed its corona during the later stages of its life.

Very First Image of a Very Hot Star | Universe Today 2009

I do not dispute that the fluoride ion ionizes once dissolved in copious amounts of water; it's the rest of the stuff that worries me.

General Jack D. Ripper had a point.... doyle 2009

This normally knocks an electron out of the atom (and ionizes the atom).

Public Health Statement for Ionizing Radiation 2008

The high voltage applied to the gas in a Moore lamp partially ionizes it — that is, it frees electrons from some of the gas atoms, enabling them to carry electric current.

Archive 2006-04-23 Edward Willett 2006