How to Use ionize in a Sentence

ionize

verb

• Shull and his colleagues have been hunting for this ionized gas.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
• The comet's green glow is due to cyanide and carbon molecules becoming ionized by the warmth of the sun.
  — Temi Adebowale, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2018
• Stellar energy hitting the disk can ionize the gas inside of it, blowing away the gas.
  — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2025
• These forms of energy can ionize, or charge, low layers of the planet’s ionosphere on the sun-facing side.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2025
• Ion drives use electricity to ionize propellants, which knocks electrons free from the gas.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 15 Oct. 2020
• Just after the big bang, glowing plasma—hot, ionized gas—filled the expanding universe.
  — Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2019
• For tens of millions of years, the universe was a dark expanse, full of ionized hydrogen and helium.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
• Over the course of several weeks, the carbon gas ionizes and sticks to the original diamond slice.
  — Anna Gordon, Time, 22 June 2023
• So at night, without the energy from the sun, more particles combine than are ionized and the ionosphere shrinks.
  — Grace Donnelly, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2018
• This technique involves shooting a laser at the skull fragments to generate tiny particles that can be ionized.
  — Stephanie Demarco, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
• The red in the image indicates ionized hydrogen, and blue shows ionized oxygen.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Nov. 2025
• The high energy electron or muon spawned by a neutrino in a flash of light would ionize the argon along its path, leaving a trail of electrons.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 8 Aug. 2019
• The beautiful image, which spans 190 light-years, is one of a set of long, thin strands of ionized gas called filaments.
  — Fox News, 19 Dec. 2019
• But comparing the amount of radiation needed to ionize the atoms to the amount gusting from the quasar showed that there wasn’t nearly enough.
  — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
• After exposure to sunlight, the vapor clouds ionize and take on a violet color.
  — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 7 May 2021
• This implied that the quasar’s wind, once housing enough radiation to ionize atoms, had slowed down drastically.
  — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
• The unit of measurement for the impact of ionizing radiation on a person’s health is called a sievert.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2019
• Eventually, the ions start passing through the surrounding air as well, ionizing it to produce that hot plume of plasma.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2024
• Inside each of the mission's four thrusters, an electromagnetic field ionizes the xenon gas before expelling the ions to produce thrust.
  — ArsTechnica, 1 May 2025
• The sample is vaporized via heating, and bombarded with an electron beam to ionize the molecules.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2018
• This thruster uses this power to ionize a propellant (such as xenon), which is then funneled through nozzles to provide consistent thrust.
  — Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
• That's in contrast to ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays and X-rays, which can remove electrons.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2019
• At the same time, that vortex is carrying conductive aerosol particles, which ionize the air and produce even more turbulence.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2025
• High-energy ionizing radiation, like the type from the atomic bombs, harms living cells by blasting electrons out of atoms.
  — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
• Hydrogen loses its electron when it gets ionized by the heat of a star, so any place that 21-cm line isn’t is already covered by other telescopes.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2023
• The space is dark, moody, and relaxed, and each of the small, individual rooms offers a jug of filtered, ionized, and alkaline water.
  — Kelly Conaboy, The Atlantic, 1 June 2017
• But barium that is not ionized, which can be enhanced with the addition of strontium or lithium, can also be used to track neutral particles.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• After the gas clumped together to form the first stars, their radiation ionized the neutral gas and eventually snuffed out the faint signal.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 16 May 2018
• By contrast, ionizing radiation, which can come from X-rays and radon, is high frequency and high energy.
  — Becky Upham, EverydayHealth.com, 6 Sep. 2024
• This disk whirls around at such a rapid pace that the material within it glows white-hot and ionizes, transforming into a dense plasma roiling with magnetic fields.
  — Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024