The ionizing particulate scrubber is provided for the removal of particulate from a gaseous exhaust stream. It consists of two sections which includes charging section and collection section. The charging section comprises one or more cylindrical tubular ground chambers each with a rigid threaded rod electrode extending through the center . The transformer/rectifier is provided to supply high voltage DC power to the electrode such that the cylindrical tubular ground chambers act as the ground to enable a corona to form on the threaded rod electrode. Ground rods in the packing and liquid sump allow the entire section to act as a grounded collector for the charged particulate. The gas stream and charged particulate are immediately sent from the charge section to the collection section of the system, and clean gas is then passed through an entrainment separator section to remove liquid droplets.