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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ionise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective converted totally or partly into ions
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Examples
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Such electrified atoms are absent from the sugar solution: sugar does not become "ionised" when it is dissolved.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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Comment: My biggest concern regarding ionisation of the IGM is the idea of "cold plasma" much of it is really only partially ionised.
SDO On Station Transmitting First Data as Solar Science Payloads Open Today | Universe Today 2010
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It is speculated that all the non-baryonic dark matter froze out even earlier – since it is not apparently affected by the energy densities still prevalent in the universe today (pardon the pun), while baryonic matter can still be affected by the energy densities prevalent in the universe today (e.g. baryonic matter can be ionised into plasma).
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Hell, you could say a glass of water is said to be ionised, but is it "plasma", "cold plasma" or just "ordinary matter"?
SDO On Station Transmitting First Data as Solar Science Payloads Open Today | Universe Today 2010
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Not necessarily: a magnetic field acting on moving charges will create a current without any electric field (moving charges can be any overall movement of neutral matter with free charges: ionised gas, a piece of metal, seawater…); and when an electric field is responsible for the current (a battery powered circuit) then the charges get moving to compensate for it immediately.
Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today 2009
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What you see in various astronomical images (other than points) is light (or IR or UV or x-rays or microwaves or …) from diffuse gas (or, sometimes, dust) that surrounds either the WD or very young star (the gas may be ionised, or neutral, or a mixture of both).
Astronomers Find Type Ia Supernova Just Waiting to Happen | Universe Today 2009
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As the gas of choice (in ionised form) for sputter coating of specimens for Scanning Electron Microscopy.
Argon 2009
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He and colleagues have built a computer simulation to model what happens to dust immersed in an ionised gas, or plasma.
Could alien life exist in the form of DNA-shaped dust? « Skid Roche 2007
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In case you didn't know, those regions are called NEBULA, however, not all of it is ionised.
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Three lines in the same region of the spectrum are seen being highly ionised Iron (Fe) lines, a broad line in the violet, and two other in the yellow corresponding to ionised nitrogen (N II) and helium He I.
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