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ionized

ionized

1 7.1
A substance that has extra or missing electrons and is charged
  • adjective
  • /ˈaɪəˌnaɪzd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : ionizado
  • Atomic hydrogen is much more transparent than ionized hydrogen, and so when it's hot, you can't see through it.

Light scatters a great deal from ionized material.

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Examples

  • Not all of the particles are ionized to emit light.

  • Scientists observed ionized hydrogen during their experiments with plasma physics.

  • It's just gentle and it suddenly goes into this ionized form and it's stable.

  • OK, now this is a soup of ionized atoms.

  • They applied high voltage to gas to create multiple strands of ionized plasma loops.

  • These include using superconducting electronic circuits, trapping ionized atoms, or squeezing light.

  • In plasma thrusters they have a tank of some sort of liquid gas that they turn them into the ionized gas atoms which are incredibly heavier than the electrons.

  • The ionized gas created from the electrical discharge glowed brightly in the dark room.

  • Ionized particles in the atmosphere can affect satellite communications.

Synonyms

ionic
vsionized
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8 5.0

Relating to charged particles like those in salt

refers to being converted into ions by chemical or physical processes

Antonyms

neutral
  • Specialized
12 5.6

Having no electric charge

nonionized
  • Specialized
8.1

A substance that does not split into parts with electric charge

How Ionized

ionized
  • Specialized
1 7.1
neutral
  • Specialized
12 5.6

Surface Forms

ionized positive

Morphology

ionized = ionize (transparent) = ion + ize + ed

A regular adjectival past-participle formed from the verb 'ionize' (ion + -ize), so the meaning is predictable from the base verb.

Etymology

The word ionized comes from the root ion, a word for a 'charged particle', and the ending -ize, meaning 'to make'. So to be ionized is to be 'made' into charged particles, as when atoms gain or lose tiny parts called electrons, which is why ionized substances have an electric charge.