ionographyn.
/ʌɪəˈnɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /ˌaɪəˈnɑɡrəfi/ 1. Chemistry and Medicine. Zone electrophoresis; esp. paper electrophoresis. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical assay or analytical chemistry > [noun] > acetimetry > chromatography > types
partition chromatography1943
paper chromatography1947
ionography1950
gas chromatography1952
thin-layer chromatography1957
TLC1961
affinity chromatography1968
1950 H. J. McDonald et al. in Science 25 Aug. 228 It is suggested that the term ionography be used to describe the technique... The isoelectric point of proteins can be determined, and..amino acids and proteins can be separated by ionography.
1975 Excerpta Medica 35 358/2 The severity of the clinical signs does not correspond at all to the disturbance of metabolism, as roughly estimated by ionography.
2003 Jrnl. Urol. 169 34/2 All patients..undergo close medical follow-up for 24 to 48 hours postoperatively and we particularly follow electrocardiography and blood ionography results.
2. Any of several electrostatic imaging processes in which a beam of light or X-rays is made to produce a pattern of ions from which a latent image is formed.
ΚΠ
1955 E. L. Criscuolo (title) Ionography: a new process of radiographic imaging.
1966 R. L. Durant & C. G. Pollitt in R. Halmshaw Physics Industr. Radiol. xv. 458 ‘Ionography’... This name has been given to an electrical method of producing a radiographic image..; it depends on the ionization produced in air by X-rays.
1985 Local Area Networks Newsletter Dec. 13 The 4060 is the first commercial Xerox product to use ion deposition technology, known as ionography.
1994 A. L. Asachenkov et al. Dis. Dynamics xii. 208 The resolution of tumors detected by X-rays has been increased by xeroradiography and ionography and by computerized tomography.
2010 D. Aberle et al. in A. A. T. Bui & R. K. Taira Med. Imaging Informatics ii. 20 Ionography and xeroradiography are less common today given the advent of digital detectors.
Derivatives
ˌionoˈgraphic adj. involving or relating to ionography (in either sense).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical assay or analytical chemistry > [adjective] > of specific types > of or relating to chromatography > of specific types
partition chromatographic1944
ionographic1950
gas chromatographic1952
perfusive1994
1950 Analytica Chimica Acta 4 66 The elution and, finally, the separation of lanthane and yttrium are performed by the ionographic method.
1968 Compar. Biochem. & Physiol. 25 727 The ionographic properties of the hemoglobins from ten species of Peromyscus have been compared.
1988 D. R. Dance in S. Webb Physics Med. Imaging ii. 64 The ionographic image system has quite a good imaging performance but can still be regarded as being at an experimental stage.
2004 Oxf. Dict. Computing (ed. 5) 274/1 Once expected to provide a lower cost than laser printers, ionographic printers are no longer used.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1950