How to Use ionize in a Sentence

ionize

verb

• The comet's green glow is due to cyanide and carbon molecules becoming ionized by the warmth of the sun.
  — Temi Adebowale, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2018
• Shull and his colleagues have been hunting for this ionized gas.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
• The beautiful image, which spans 190 light-years, is one of a set of long, thin strands of ionized gas called filaments.
  — Fox News, 19 Dec. 2019
• Over the course of several weeks, the carbon gas ionizes and sticks to the original diamond slice.
  — Anna Gordon, Time, 22 June 2023
• So at night, without the energy from the sun, more particles combine than are ionized and the ionosphere shrinks.
  — Grace Donnelly, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2018
• As the gases ionize, the methane breaks down and the carbon-14 collects on a substrate in the reactor and begins to grow in a diamond lattice.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 31 Aug. 2020
• For tens of millions of years, the universe was a dark expanse, full of ionized hydrogen and helium.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
• The high energy electron or muon spawned by a neutrino in a flash of light would ionize the argon along its path, leaving a trail of electrons.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 8 Aug. 2019
• An electric propulsion engine—such as a Hall thruster that ionizes xenon gas—has a high specific impulse, as much as 10 times that of NTP.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2018
• Just after the big bang, glowing plasma—hot, ionized gas—filled the expanding universe.
  — Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2019
• While Lyudmilla watched a column of fire and bluish-purple ionized air rise into the night, my husband was asleep 60 miles away: a toddler in a Kiev apartment.
  — Bathsheba Demuth, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2019
• The unit of measurement for the impact of ionizing radiation on a person’s health is called a sievert.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2019
• The space is dark, moody, and relaxed, and each of the small, individual rooms offers a jug of filtered, ionized, and alkaline water.
  — Kelly Conaboy, The Atlantic, 1 June 2017
• Ion drives use electricity to ionize propellants, which knocks electrons free from the gas.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 15 Oct. 2020
• Hydrogen loses its electron when it gets ionized by the heat of a star, so any place that 21-cm line isn’t is already covered by other telescopes.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2023
• This technique involves shooting a laser at the skull fragments to generate tiny particles that can be ionized.
  — Stephanie Demarco, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
• After the gas clumped together to form the first stars, their radiation ionized the neutral gas and eventually snuffed out the faint signal.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 16 May 2018
• The atmosphere of Pluto interacts with solar winds and ionizes Pluto, giving it a tail that stretches across the system and out into space.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2015
• The sample is vaporized via heating, and bombarded with an electron beam to ionize the molecules.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2018
• While the cosmic radiation still affects this part of the atmosphere, only the atoms at the upper portion continue to be ionized.
  — Grace Donnelly, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2018
• This implied that the quasar’s wind, once housing enough radiation to ionize atoms, had slowed down drastically.
  — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
• After exposure to sunlight, the vapor clouds ionize and take on a violet color.
  — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 7 May 2021
• That's in contrast to ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays and X-rays, which can remove electrons.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2019
• After mixing the gas with a bit of moisture and nitrogen, the hydrogen is ionized, and an electric field forces the resulting ions through a proton-exchange membrane.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023
• The intense ultraviolet light from this era caused this murky neutral hydrogen to get excited and ionize, or gain electric charge, and the gas has remained in that state since that time.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 6 Dec. 2017
• After crossing this lensing air, the intense, short laser pulses can rapidly ionize and heat air molecules, expelling them from the path of the beam at supersonic speeds.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2022
• The concern is that this kind of radiation can ionize atoms and rip apart DNA, potentially causing health problems such as cancer.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
• High-energy ionizing radiation, like the type from the atomic bombs, harms living cells by blasting electrons out of atoms.
  — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
• But barium that is not ionized, which can be enhanced with the addition of strontium or lithium, can also be used to track neutral particles.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• Since then, radiation has evolved into treatments that include modern brachytherapy, inserting a radioactive source into a tumor, and focused beams of ionizing radiation that kill off cells while incurring as little off-target damage as possible.
  — Angus Chen, STAT, 15 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024