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ionizes
  • present tense form of ionize (3rd person singular).

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Either electrical current from divertors or from microwaves ionizes the gas, igniting an electrically charged plasma ring.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Either electrical current from divertors or from microwaves ionizes the gas, igniting an electrically charged plasma ring.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

They discovered fluorescent light from oxygen atoms, known as OII, that typically occurs when ultraviolet light from bright young stars ionizes oxygen in surrounding gas clouds.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 8, 2024

Ultraviolet radiation is important because it ionizes hydrogen -- a process that also occurred right after the Big Bang, causing the universe to go from opaque to transparent.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023

The retrogression gun ionizes animal tissue, nerve cells particularly.

From Forget Me Nearly by Wallace, F. L. (Floyd L.)

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