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Definition of Ionise

1. Verb. Become converted into ions.

Definition of Ionise

1. Verb. (British spelling) (alternative spelling of ionize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ionise

1. to ionize [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES] - See also: ionize

Medical Definition of Ionise

1. To separate into ions; to dissociate atoms or molecules into electrically charged atoms or radicals. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ionise

Literary usage of Ionise

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

1. Modern Electrical Theory by Norman Robert Campbell (1913)
"acquired by moving through the electric field a certain amount of energy (which must be not less than that required to ionise a molecule), it will ionise ..."

2. The Principles of Applied Electrochemistry by Arthur John Allmand (1912)
"Besides hydrogen and the halogens, oxygen can also ionise, the corresponding equation being J02 + H20 —> 20H'. Nitrogen does not ionise. ..."

3. A System of Physical Chemistry by William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis, James Rice (1919)
"This lower limit of kinetic energy which an electron must possess in order to ionise a gas may be equated to Ve, where V is called the ionisation potential ..."

4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1906)
"But even if the corpuscle were less energetic, and did not in one collision give enough internal energy to the atom to ionise it, it would communicate some ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"It now seems likely that this effect is due to traces of some radio-active substance, whence issue the radiations which ionise the air. ..."

6. A Text-book of Physics: Including a Collection of Examples and Questions by William Watson (1920)
"These rays which are given out by uranium possess the property of discharging both positive and negative electricity, that is, they ionise the gas through ..."

7. Modern Electrical Theory by Norman Robert Campbell (1913)
"acquired by moving through the electric field a certain amount of energy (which must be not less than that required to ionise a molecule), it will ionise ..."

8. The Principles of Applied Electrochemistry by Arthur John Allmand (1912)
"Besides hydrogen and the halogens, oxygen can also ionise, the corresponding equation being J02 + H20 —> 20H'. Nitrogen does not ionise. ..."

9. A System of Physical Chemistry by William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis, James Rice (1919)
"This lower limit of kinetic energy which an electron must possess in order to ionise a gas may be equated to Ve, where V is called the ionisation potential ..."

10. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1906)
"But even if the corpuscle were less energetic, and did not in one collision give enough internal energy to the atom to ionise it, it would communicate some ..."

11. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"It now seems likely that this effect is due to traces of some radio-active substance, whence issue the radiations which ionise the air. ..."

12. A Text-book of Physics: Including a Collection of Examples and Questions by William Watson (1920)
"These rays which are given out by uranium possess the property of discharging both positive and negative electricity, that is, they ionise the gas through ..."

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