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gareth
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I'm trying to get my head around how a gas is thermally ionised.
I understand you can ionize a gas by irradiating it with some short wave radiation to overcome the work function of the atom, right?
But I also know you can thermally ionize a gas, i.e. the collisions between the particles themselves actually knock each others electrons out of orbit, is this right?
How does this come about?
thnx
I understand you can ionize a gas by irradiating it with some short wave radiation to overcome the work function of the atom, right?
But I also know you can thermally ionize a gas, i.e. the collisions between the particles themselves actually knock each others electrons out of orbit, is this right?
How does this come about?
thnx