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Ionising just changes the structure of the atom.

The photons (light waves behaving like particles) penetrate the atom and knock of the of the electrons orbiting the atom leaving the atom unbalanced. When it is left unbalanced, the atom is then written out with either a positive or negative charge, to show that the atom has been changed.

P.S I learned this is physics not chemistry.

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