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IONIZED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Converted totally or partly into ions
Synonyms:
ionised; ionized
Classified under:
Antonym:
nonionized (not converted into ions)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb ionize
Context examples:
The disk has probably heated to the point where the gas in the disk has become ionized, leading to a rapid increase in how fast the material falls onto the star.
(Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE, NASA)
A mass spectrometry technique in which a solid sample is atomized and ionized by sputtering in low-pressure direct-current plasma prior to the separation and detection of the ions in a mass analyzer.
(Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)
On Earth, aurorae are essentially green or red (excitation of atomic oxygen), but even blue-purple (excitation of ionized molecular nitrogen) can be seen.
(Blue Aurorae in Mars’ Sky Visible to the Naked Eye, NASA)
The New Horizons Particles and Plasma team has discovered a region of cold, dense ionized gas tens of thousands of miles beyond Pluto — the planet’s atmosphere being stripped away by the solar wind and lost to space.
(New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)
Milrinone lactate selectively inhibits fraction III cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) phosphodiesterase isozymes in the heart and vascular muscles, thereby increasing cAMP and, consequently, an increase in cAMP-dependent intracellular ionized calcium and myocardium contractile force, and vasodilation in arteriolar and venous vascular smooth muscle.
(Milrinone Lactate, NCI Thesaurus)
Drawing on what scientists learned from exploring plumes on Saturn's moon Enceladus — that material in plumes becomes ionized and leaves a characteristic blip in the magnetic field — they knew what to look for.
(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)
