IONIZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ionized mean? 

• IONIZED (adjective)
  The adjective IONIZED has 1 sense:

1. converted totally or partly into ions

  Familiarity information: IONIZED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IONIZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Converted totally or partly into ions

Synonyms:

ionised; ionized

Antonym:

nonionized (not converted into ions)

 Context examples 

As more stars and galaxies formed, their energy eventually ionized the hydrogen between the galaxies, revealing the universe as we see it today.

(Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter, National Science Foundation)

Like all planetary plasmoids, it was full of charged particles - mostly ionized hydrogen.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)

A measurement of the ionized calcium in a biological specimen.

(Ionized Calcium Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This newly discovered quasar has a redshift of 7.54, based on the detection of ionized carbon emissions from the galaxy that hosts the massive black hole.

(Most Distant Black Hole, NASA)

The ionized form of lanthanum (trivalent ion) with phosphate binding property.

(Lanthanum Cation (3), NCI Thesaurus)

Although its mechanism of action is not fully elucidated, un-ionized metronidazole is readily taken up by obligate anaerobic organisms and is subsequently reduced by low-redox potential electron-transport proteins to an active, intermediate product.

(Metronidazole, NCI Thesaurus)

Because large particles travel more slowly than small ones, the masses of the ionized particles are determined by measuring their arrival time at the end of the tube

(Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)

The determination of the amount of ionized calcium present in a sample.

(Ionized Calcium Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-contact form of electrocoagulation in which high-frequency electric current is delivered via ionized argon gas to cause coagulation and destruction of tissue.

(Argon Plasma Coagulation, NCI Thesaurus)

Electro-osmosis describes the active transport of non-ionized solutes associated with the bulk flow of fluid in the direction of the counter-ions that occurs with iontophoretic transport of other, ionized solutes.

(Electro-osmosis Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)