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Ionization energy is the amount of energy necessary to _____.

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I think ionization energy is the energy required to remove an electron from a neutral atom. It is the amount of energy that is required to remove the most loosely bound electron, the valence electron, of an isolated gaseous atom to form a cation. Atoms and molecules have this measurement, which refer to the energy it takes for all atoms in one mole of a substance to each lose one electron.
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