ionize
verb (used with object)
to separate or change into ions.
ionise
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a variation of
ionize.
Example Sentences
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As the grains heat up and ionise, they produce the light we can see with the trail produced as the meteor cools and fades.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
The light this interaction creates is what we can see as the grains heat up and ionise.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Ionisation-based systems use a tiny amount of radioactive material to charge, or ionise, particles in the air which flow between two small plates.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
They dissolved these parts in an acid bath so as to ionise the metals.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
The electrons, when they are propagated in a gas, can ionise the molecules of this gas and unite with the neutral atoms to form negative ions, while positive ions also appear.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré
