How atoms become ionized. Star-forming regions in space like the Orion Nebula pictured here are home to budding stars. ... This process is called ionization, and an ionized atom is called an ion.

If your atom is too ionized, it will likely zip away from you and attach itself to a nearby atom or molecule. An atom becomes radioactive when its nucleus contains too many or too few neutrons.

Physicists have traced the double ionization of argon atoms on attosecond time scales. When an intense laser pulse interacts with an atom it generates agitation on the micro scale. The most likely ...

The ionized electron escapes from the atom and follows a particular trajectory to the detector – a dual microchannel plate (MCP) detector – that is perpendicular to the field itself. Given that there ...

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Then come the molecules: Ionized hydrogen gas, which the scientists leak into the vacuum chamber until a single H 2 reacts with the calcium atom. Now the ionized atom and the ionized molecule are ...

But this process occurs so quickly that current instruments can only see the final ionized atom, and not any intermediate states. Ferenc Krausz and colleagues from the Max-Planck Institut für ...