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  • adverb chemistry using ionic bonds

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ionic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • When that is aerosolized, it can get ionically-charged and light off, which is a bit of static electricity.

    CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2008 2008

  • The dust that was once a sleeve, was ionically drawn to the receptors at the head and foot of the bed.

    Before Destruction Rossi, Michael 1991

  • Dr. BAUGHMAN: It becomes a battery electrode, and we can make - take another yarn, which is the opposite electrode, and twist those two yarns together with a ionically electronically insulating material in between, and we get a battery.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Dr. BAUGHMAN: It becomes a battery electrode, and we can make - take another yarn, which is the opposite electrode, and twist those two yarns together with a ionically electronically insulating material in between, and we get a battery.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Rediscover Jorge Ben with the ionically charged "Ponta de Lanca African (Umbabarauma)," from the 2009 collection Twenty First Century Twenty First Year.

    Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Eighty-Seven 2009

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