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Ionization

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This article is listed as a level-4 vital article in science (where level 5 is the most essential) and is rated a C-Class article which leaves room for improvement.

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The beginning paragraph is rather short and does not flow well from sentence to sentence. Perhaps a history of ionization would be beneficial in this section (to start) and then a description of how it works.

"Uses" section is rather small and doesn't incorporate a lot of industry use that Ionization is apart of, specifically regarding mass spectrometry (one sentence is given).

Ionization energies are described for neutral elements only.

The semi-classical description should be under the history of ionization and its discovery.

Not a lot of sources are cited within this page.

Dissociation section should be more distinguishable and perhaps not even included when talking about ionization specifically.

Dr. Heard's comments
Good evaluation overall - a few comments.

The beginning paragraph is meant to be a short description of the page, so history would be out of place. There is a separate page for Ionization energy which does cover successive ionization energies, though there is a later section on this page which may not belong. The header makes it clear this page is about single ionization of a neutral compound.

Something I noticed about the sources is that there are some secondary sources (mostly reviews), but it seems whoever wrote the sections on electron scattering and tunnel ionization went too heavily into primary sources, while there are reviews and even textbooks that could be used.

It is also worth noting that there is little action on the talk page, despite there being a lot of edits on the main page.