Photoionization
Photoionization is the physical process in which an ion is formed from the interaction of a photon with an atom or molecule.1
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Footnotes
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IUPAC, Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. (the “Gold Book”) (2025). Online version: (2006–) “photoionization”. doi: 10.1351/goldbook.P04620 ↩