autoionize

== English == === Alternative forms === autoionise === Etymology === From auto- + ionize. === Verb === autoionize (third-person singular simple present autoionizes, present participle autoionizing, simple past and past participle autoionized) (physics, of an atom or molecule) To spontaneously transition from an electrically neutral state to a lower-energy ionized state ==== Derived terms ==== autoionization autoionizer