ionisation

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Wouldn't successive lightning strikes be more likely due to ionisation of the air?

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the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge); "the ionization of a gas"

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noun

the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge); "the ionization of a gas"

noun

the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ionisation.

noun

the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge); "the ionization of a gas"

noun

the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas

Example sentences

Wouldn't successive lightning strikes be more likely due to ionisation of the air?

A lot of newer smoke detectors work on a photo-electric principle rather than by ionisation.

Rayleigh scattering's high-energy bias is independent of the type of gas. Methane itself is colourless, so I suspect sunlight must be causing either ionisation or a chemical reaction which splits the molecule, with the reverse reaction emitting orange light?

You can only come to that conclusion if you assume that ionisation effects are the only pathways that can cause cancer....and it is not justified to make that assumption, because there is reason to believe that there is another possible pathway.

I cannot speak to all the "smart"/"connected" aspects of the device but the smoke sensor seems far better than that of every other residential smoke detector, and it would be very nice if other residential smoke detectors ditched the ionisation sensor and went to a dual-wavelength design.