Definition of Ion pump

1. Noun. A vacuum pump that removes gas by ionizing the atoms or molecules and adsorbing them on a metal surface.

Generic synonyms: Air Pump, Vacuum Pump

Medical Definition of Ion pump

1. A membranal complex of proteins that is capable of transporting ions against a concentration gradient using the energy from ATP. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ion Pump

ion channel gating
ion channelopathy
ion channels
ion cyclotron emission
ion diode
ion engine
ion engines
ion exchange
ion exchange chromatography
ion exchange resin
ion exchange resins
ion exchanger
ion milling
ion mirror
ion mirrors
ion pump (current term)
ion pumps
ion selective electrode
ion transport
ionate
ionene
ionenes
ionic
ionic bond
ionic bonds
ionic charge
ionic coupling
ionic crystal
ionic liquid
ionic liquids

Literary usage of Ion pump

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Because we're the only ones with an electro-ion pump, we're the only ones ... The electro-ion pump is just one of the features that make the Ultrascan the ..."

2. Utilisation and Reliability of High Power Proton Accelerators: Workshop by NEA Nuclear Science Committee (2005)
"ion pump. All the reactive gases can be efficiently pumped, while noble gases can be confined with low efficiency and with very low sorption capacity. ..."

3. Waterworks Handbook by Alfred Douglas Flinn (1916)
"It is very common ion pump, notwithstanding the suction pipe being tight, to refuse to lift w:r suction when the delivery valves are held down by the ..."

4. Modern Engineering Practice: A Reference Library by American School (Chicago, Ill.) (1906)
"... maintaining a water pressure of 100 pounds per square inch \\lien furnished with steam at a pressure of pounds for the 500-gal- ion pump ..."

5. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Un'ion-pump. (Hydraulics.) One in which thi' engine and pump are united in the same frame. U'nit. A single one of a thing or of a number, funning the basis ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Because we're the only ones with an electro-ion pump, we're the only ones ... The electro-ion pump is just one of the features that make the Ultrascan the ..."

7. Utilisation and Reliability of High Power Proton Accelerators: Workshop by NEA Nuclear Science Committee (2005)
"ion pump. All the reactive gases can be efficiently pumped, while noble gases can be confined with low efficiency and with very low sorption capacity. ..."

8. Waterworks Handbook by Alfred Douglas Flinn (1916)
"It is very common ion pump, notwithstanding the suction pipe being tight, to refuse to lift w:r suction when the delivery valves are held down by the ..."

9. Modern Engineering Practice: A Reference Library by American School (Chicago, Ill.) (1906)
"... maintaining a water pressure of 100 pounds per square inch \\lien furnished with steam at a pressure of pounds for the 500-gal- ion pump ..."

10. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Un'ion-pump. (Hydraulics.) One in which thi' engine and pump are united in the same frame. U'nit. A single one of a thing or of a number, funning the basis ..."

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