Talk:Ionization

Dissociation / Ionization
According to Dissociation (chemistry): "[dissociation] is frequently confused with ionization." But neither article explains the difference. Please reply at Talk:Dissociation (chemistry) Eleland 02:36, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

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Spelling
Does anyone know why ionization is spelt with a 'z' when the expected form would be 'ionisation' and 'ionise'? This doesn't appear to be a regional difference as all textbooks that I have seen use the spelling listed in the article.Zebulin (talk) 00:13, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * See WP:ENGVAR. All my texts say "ionize" (even Atkins!). --Kkmurray (talk) 18:27, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * That's exactly what I don't understand. Why is ionize universally spelt with a zed?  I've never seen it spelt ionise or ionisation anywhere even though we'd expect 'ion' to have such a suffix according to the pattern seen for all other words.  I'm aware that some generally use 'ize' instead of 'ise' for all such suffixes but this seems to be a case where everybody uses 'ize'. Zebulin (talk) 04:21, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

It does not matter whether you spell ionise or ionised with a z or s. My dictionary says that the spelling with an s is more common in British English. In Scientific articles, either spelling is allowed, although the z variant seems to be used more often. I guess the important thing is to only use one of the two variants in the article. AJH.

The American version is spelt with a 'z' and the English version is spelt with a 's'.

Institute of Physics publications (in Great Britain) want "z"s in every "-zation". I presume because it matches the pronunciation and is easier for foreign readers to pronounce correctly. 76.212.128.2 (talk) 01:58, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Flame ionization
Isn't this article the right place to explain how the ions are produced in an FID? Is ionization during a chemical reaction called chemical ionization? – Rainald62 (talk) 21:38, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Small error on graph
Comment: The dot for element 85 At is missing from the graph for those of you who are studying this in detail. 76.212.128.2 (talk) 01:51, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Classical Ionization Section
It is my understanding the ionization is largely a quantum mechanical effect. I feel like the section on classical ionization should be renamed to "Classical Model of Ionization". I also feel that sequential ionization should be put underneath the quantum ionization section because plenty of ionization models (ADK, PPT) treat only the problem of sequential ionization and they are in no way classical models.

I also think the section titled quantum ionization about be better described by Photoionization (includes tunneling, mulitphoton, ATI, and any other ionization model that is due to electromagnetic waves).

Do you think it is reasonable to include a section on collisional ionization and chaotic ionization?

Lukealanjohnson (talk) 05:42, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I have an air filter with a fan or a fan/ion switch. Is it inappropriate to ask for such a layperson explanation here? Virillustre (talk) 05:07, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

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Projectile coherence
I removed this primary source Revert of IP edit here:. It doesn't seem to fit in this general article. Also, IP suggests potential WP:COI. --Kkmurray (talk) 01:48, 10 December 2015 (UTC)