Ionization
Gold Book
| GOLD BOOK DEFINITION
IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the Gold Book). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A.Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). |
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The generation of one or more ions. It may occur, e.g. by loss of an electron from a neutral molecular entity, by the unimolecular heterolysis of such an entity into two or more ions, or by a heterolytic substitution reaction involving neutral molecules, such as: http://www.nicmila.org/Gold/Output/SVG/I03183-1.png http://www.nicmila.org/Gold/Output/SVG/I03183-2.png http://www.nicmila.org/Gold/Output/SVG/I03183-3.png The loss of an electron from a singly, doubly, etc. charged cation is called second, third, etc. ionization. This terminology is used especially in mass spectroscopy. |
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