ionize

English

Alternative forms

• ionise

Etymology

From ion +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ī'-ə-nīz, IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ.ə.naɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

ionize (third-person singular simple present ionizes, present participle ionizing, simple past and past participle ionized)

1. (physical chemistry) To dissociate atoms or molecules into electrically charged species; to be thus dissociated.

Derived terms

• autoionize
• counterionize
• deionize
• ionizable
• ionization
• ionizer
• ionizing
• nonionized
• nonionizing
• non-ionizing radiation
• overionized
• photoionize
• photoionizing
• preionize
• reionize
• unionized
• un-ionized

Translations

to dissociate atoms or molecules into electrically charged species

Arabic: أَيَّنَ (ar) (ʔayyana) Bulgarian: йонизиран (bg) (joniziran) Catalan: ionitzar (ca) Danish: ionisere Esperanto: jonigi Finnish: ionisoida (fi), ionisoida (fi), ionisoitua French: ioniser (fr) German: ionisieren (de) Greek: ιονίζω (el) (ionízo) Hungarian: ionizál (hu) Icelandic: jóna Italian: ionizzare (it) Maori: whakakatote Norwegian: ionisere Polish: jonizować (pl) impf, zjonizować pf Portuguese: ionizar (pt) Romanian: ioniza (ro) Russian: ионизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (ionizírovatʹ), ионизова́ть (ru) impf or pf (ionizovátʹ) Spanish: ionizar (es) Swedish: jonisera (sv) Tagalog: sadagipikin Telugu: అయనీకరణం చెందు (ayanīkaraṇaṁ cendu), అయనీకరించు (ayanīkariñcu) Ukrainian: іонізува́ти impf or pf (ionizuváty)

Galician

Verb

ionize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of ionizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /joˈni.zi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /joˈni.zi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /joˈni.ze/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /juˈni.zɨ/

• Hyphenation: io‧ni‧ze

Verb

ionize

1. inflection of ionizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative