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.

The ionized atom will then be drawn to an electrically charged plate where it will condense into a liquid and run down into a trough, like beads of water on the outside of an icy glass.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

THE spectrum of iodine excited to various stages of ionization by condensed discharges in capillary tubes of different cross-sections has been photographed by Littrow spectrographs in the visible ...

Every thousandth atom, however, underwent non-sequential double ionization: After the ionization of the first electron just after the first wave maximum, it took approximately 1.8 femtoseconds for ...