• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Ironically, ionized particles tend to stick together (trying to become neutrally-charged) whereas unionized particles tend not to interact as strongly; so a group of chemists ‘binding’ together to form a union would actually be ‘ionized’ not ‘unionized’ … metaphorically :p

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      7 months ago

      While ionized particles stick to other things, they do not really stick together - at least if they are the same type of particles or rather carry the same type of charge, respectively.

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      7 months ago

      Unionized means particles without charge, i.e. particles with same amount of electrons and protons.

      Deionized is something that once had ions and through some process those ions lost their charge.

      Correct me if I’m wrong. I am not a chemist