deionized

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adjective

That has been prepared by deionization.

UncommonScrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivedeionized (comparative more deionized, superlative most deionized)

comparative more deionized · superlative most deionized

  1. That has been prepared by deionization.

    He could taste the familiar tang of museum air—an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hint of carbon—the product of industrial, coal-filter dehumidifiers that ran around the clock to counteract the corrosive carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors.

    2003, Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 25–26
    1 more example

    Cement pastes, with a water-to-cement ratio of 0.5, were prepared by (i) adding ordinary Portland cement (CEM I) to deionized water (control samples) or (ii) mixing CEM I with a lyophilized bacterial agent and then putting those dry ingredients into deionized water (bacteria samples).

    2024 October 10, Tiana Milović et al., “Enhancing Compressive Strength of Cement by Indigenous Individual and Co-Culture Bacillus Bacteria”, in Materials, volume 17, number 20, →DOI, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2025
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of deionize

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Englishde-
  7. Englishionized
  8. Englishdeionized

From de- + ionized.

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Translations

Bulgarian дейонизиран
  • дейонизиран (dejoniziran)that has been prepared by deionization
Icelandic afjónaður
  • afjónaðurthat has been prepared by deionization
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APA

deionized. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deionized

MLA

“deionized.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deionized. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deionized,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deionized.

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