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Unlike X-rays, ultrasounds do not use ionizing radiation and are not associated with radiation exposure.6
In rare cases, an ultrasound may interfere with tissues and fluids in your body.6 Ultrasound waves may heat body tissues and produce small pockets of gas in body fluids or tissues.
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Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 22 June 2025
During intense space weather events, satellite signals struggle to reach Earth through an atmosphere suddenly ionized by clouds of energetic particles arriving from the sun.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 16 May 2025
So scientists now aim to detect a radio signal from the neutral hydrogen itself, before it was ionized, back through cosmic dawn and even into the dark ages.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
This can help avoid the exposure to unnecessarily high doses of ionizing radiation.
—Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 22 June 2025
During intense space weather events, satellite signals struggle to reach Earth through an atmosphere suddenly ionized by clouds of energetic particles arriving from the sun.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 16 May 2025
So scientists now aim to detect a radio signal from the neutral hydrogen itself, before it was ionized, back through cosmic dawn and even into the dark ages.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
This can help avoid the exposure to unnecessarily high doses of ionizing radiation.
—Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ionize
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“Ionize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ionize. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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ionize
verb
ion·ize
ˈī-ə-ˌnīz 
ionized; ionizing
1
: to convert wholly or partly into ions
2
: to become ionized
Medical Definition
ionize
verb
ion·ize
variants
or chiefly British ionise
ionized or chiefly British ionised; ionizing or chiefly British ionising
: to convert wholly or partly into ions
: to become ionized
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