ionize

Whenever the environment is energetic enough to ionize one hydrogen, the result is like the tea party in Alice in Wonderland.

Anyway, its pretty safe to say that, say, red visible light (400 THz) does not ionize important human molecules.

These types of radiation are energetic enough to interfere with and ionize molecules, such as your DNA.

So following that there's a gas tube protector, which is essentially a neon tube which will ionize and short to ground.

Perhaps one could ionize the vapor, to be able to move it with electric fields.

These particles ionize the atmosphere, which puts the electrons in the N2 orbitals in a frenzy, causing fluorescence and Cerenkov radiation (also light).

The ionization has nothing to do with it, though that probably reduces the heat slightly as it takes energy to ionize a gas.

Sharp points have a very small radius, so they generate a large electric field, which can easily ionize air and thus cause arcing.

You might be able to annihilate enough electrons of the dust particle to ionize it enough to subsequently deflect it from the ship.

This bottle cleaner used radioactive Po210 material to ionize an air jet which was used to dislodge electrostatic dust inside the bottles after washing.

They tend to ionize stuff, which is actually a mechanism for resist development, but XRay energies are high enough that the reactions become less predictable.

They ionize the sample and sort the resulting cloud by the speed at which the ions move in an electric field in a low pressure gas.

Air itself would work, but there's this minor matter of "ozone, and lasers powerful enough to ionize air, isn't the best for you".

We've tried a few other like silverstripe and Ionize, but both were way to complicated and required a cumbersome process much like the one you mentioned in your post.