One of the properties that are shown to be functions dependent on the atomic weight, is the property under discussion, namely the tendency of the (highest) hydroxides of the elements to ionize as bases or acids, respectively.
With the disappearance of the ions of water, in this case notably of its hydrogen ions, more water must ionize to satisfy the ionization constant [p181] for water (p.
On several occasions we have found that all electrolytes do not ionize equally well, and that the intensity of their action, demonstrated, for instance, for potassium and ammonium hydroxides, varies accordingly.
Silicic acid shows some slight tendency to ionize also as a base (see Chapter X) and the basic form of ionization would be favored by the presence of a strong acid (Chapter X).
The deviation from the law, naturally, would be most marked in the case of those electrolytes which ionize so easily as readily to produce high concentrations of ions.
Organic compounds, on the other hand, ionize only very slowly, if at all.
Inorganic materials, when dissolved in water, usuallyionize very readily.
The effects which salts produce in protoplasm are undoubtedly due to the fact that, when in solution, they readily ionize and conduct the electric current.
Moving-camera photographs of the sparks produced by electric machines show that such sparks begin with small brush discharges which gradually ionize the air and thus build up a conductive path for the complete discharge.
Now this accumulation of negative electricity will produce a large electric force on the anode side; this will drive corpuscles forward with great velocity andionize the gas.
They ionize also, either directly by collision or indirectly by heating the anode, the gas and vapour of the metal of which the anode is made, and produce in this way the supply of positive ions which keep the cathode hot.
The Rontgen rays to ionizethe gas were produced by a bulb at O, the bulb and coil being in a lead-covered box, with an aluminium window through which the rays passed.
We have direct evidence that rapidly moving corpuscles are able to ionizemolecules against which they strike, for the cathode rays consist of such corpuscles, and these when they pass through a gas produce large amounts of ionization.
Thomson and Lyman) that certain kinds of ultra-violet light ionize a gas when they pass through.
A single particle of radiation can ionize hundreds of neutral atoms in the tissue in multiple collisions before all its energy is absorbed.
Common to all three types of nuclear decay radiation is their ability to ionize (i.
If energetic betas pass sufficiently close to atomic nuclei, they can produce X-rays which themselves can ionize additional neutral atoms.
To get a supply of protons one only had to ionize the very common hydrogen atoms, i.
The hypothetical proton-electron combination, however, which was neither a wave form nor a charged particle was not expected to be able to ionize atoms.
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