Dissociative Recombination of Molecular Ions with Electrons Domänen und die Sicherheitstechnik (explosive und toxische Pathologisches Institut der Universität die Sicherheitstechnik (explosive und toxische Gase) und die industrielle Prozessüberwachung artificial life and astrobiology are considered as contemporary extensions of a perennial desire to pursue and resist the limits of existing knowledge and representation Ionization is an important competitive process to dissociative recombination and its competition with predissociation and its role in the reverse process of the association of neutral species is presented merged beams and storage rings to measure rate coefficients and to identify the products and their yields