Volcanic activity from its moons and a rapid rate of this process sustain a large torus around Jupiter that damaged Voyager 1. OB stars drive this process to produce surrounding Strömgren spheres like the Rosette Nebula. A formula describing this process that relates ratios of N and Z terms was used by Cecilia Payne to demonstrate the composition of stellar atmospheres. The presence of the Gunn–Peterson trough at redshifts above z equals 6 is evidence for this process in the (*) early universe that occurred after recombination and the “Dark Ages.” This process is modeled by the Saha equation, which gives a poor approximation for the distribution of gaseous components of the interstellar medium that have undergone this process. This process has occurred to atomic hydrogen in H II regions. For 10 points, name this process in which an atom gains or loses electrons. ■END■
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 135.25 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 109.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 143.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 67% | 33% | 86.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 142.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 20% | 60% | 117.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 131.75 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 7 | 100% | 14% | 29% | 117.29 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 143.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 74.67 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mason Yu | Brown | Belmont | 30 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge | 35 | 15 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | Chicago B | 35 | 15 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU | Haverford B | 40 | 15 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Billy's Bastion | 42 | 15 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | SIUE | 51 | 15 |
| Jonathan Shauf | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Master and Margaritaville | 65 | -5 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto B | Toronto C | 66 | -5 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Truman State | 70 | 15 |
| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | Illinois C | 78 | 15 |
| Emma Victoria Byron | Rutgers | Maryland A | 81 | -5 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | Catholic University of America | 81 | -5 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 85 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard | MIT | 89 | -5 |
| Paphon Susikakosol | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 89 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 89 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | girl 15 whale i mean they | 97 | 10 |
| Bill Zhao | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Too much from you lately | 97 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 97 | 10 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield C | Edinburgh | 98 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | UW A | 100 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brandeis | 115 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Iowa State | 117 | -5 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield A | Warwick A | 126 | 10 |
| Humzah Shaikh | George Mason A | George Mason B | 127 | -5 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Chicago A | 128 | -5 |
| Danny Fisher | Warwick C | Imperial B | 134 | -5 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Arizona State University B | 141 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard | 141 | 10 |
| Elle Lee | NYU A | Georgetown | 141 | -5 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | Brown | 142 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Rutgers | 142 | 10 |
| Marcus Smith | George Mason B | George Mason A | 142 | 10 |
| Sam Hastings | Birmingham | LSE | 142 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | South Dakota School of Mines | 143 | 0 |
| Eric Anderson | South Dakota School of Mines | Carleton | 143 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 143 | 0 |
| Simarya Ahuja | UW B | Alberta | 143 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 143 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Lexington | 143 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | Haverford A | 143 | 0 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Washington | 143 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | NYU A | 143 | 10 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh | Sheffield C | 143 | 10 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick B | Lancaster | 143 | 10 |
| David Latimer | Imperial B | Warwick C | 143 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto C | Toronto B | 143 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 143 | 10 |
| Arthur Gayden | Chicago A | Missouri | 143 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | WashU Bulbasaur | 143 | 10 |