as well as dipolar polarisation. The ferroelectric transition, which is caused by the lining up of the orientations of permanent dipoles along a particular direction, is called an order-disorder phase transition. The transition caused by ionic polarisations in crystals is called a displacive phase transition.

In biological cells

Ionic polarisation enables the production of energy-rich compounds in cells (the proton pump in mitochondria)

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