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How Hair Straightners Use Ionization

How Straightners Work

A superior ceramic hair straightener works by using ceramic/tourmaline ion machinery that creates gentle far-infrared heat and additional negative ions to make hair shiny, frizz-free hair without heat damage and breakage. Tourmaline is the only mineral that has shown permanent electricity on the earth, and is also a natural, non-manufactured source of negative ions and far infrared rays. Hair Straighteners function by breaking down hair's hydrogen bonds which can be found in the hair's cortex, this makes hair bend and become curly. Once the bonds are broken, hair is prevented from holding its original, natural form, though the hydrogen bonds can re-form if exposed to moisture. The ionic technology it the reason that moisture stays locked in the hair.

How Ionization Is Used

Ionization is defined as the ionization energy or ionization potential is the energy necessary to remove an electron from the neutral atom. This process works slightly differently depending on whether an ion with a positive or a negative electric charge is being produced. Hair Irons uses negatively charged ions to heat the ceramic plates. A negatively charged ion is produced when a free electron collides with an atom and is subsequently caught inside the electric potential barrier, releasing any excess energy. The release of this energy then causes the heating of ceramic plates and the straightener then begins to work. The highest temperature of most flat irons is around four hundred and fifty degrees, for high end ceramic straightners. The ceramic is used in the straightners because it can withstand the extreme heat put out by the negative ions. Due to the shape of the potential barrier, according to these principles a free electron must have an energy greater than or equal to that of the potential barrier in order to make it over. If it has enough energy to do so, it will be bound to the lowest available energy state, and the remaining energy will be past the potential barrier, then it is forced away by the electrostatic force, described by Coulombs Law, associated with the electric potential barrier.









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