ION
\ˈa͡ɪɒn], \ˈaɪɒn], \ˈaɪ_ɒ_n]\
Definitions of ION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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a particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons
By Princeton University
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a particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One of the electrified particles into which a gas, or a substance in solution, is broken up under the action of electricity.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A group of atoms or parts of molecules carrying a charge of electricity and constituting one of the elements of an electrolyte. The ions charged with negative electricity which are evolved at the positive pole (anode) are called anions; those charged with positive electricity, at the negative pole (cathode), cations.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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One of the elements which appear at the poles, when a body is subjected to electro-chemical decomposition.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Any one of the elements which are evolved out of a particular substance by the voltaic current, and which appear at the poles of the battery.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A constituent of any salt, acid, or base formed when dissolved in water which is charged with electricity. When the charge is negative, the ion is an anion; when it is positive, the ion is a cation. When sodium chlorid dissolves in water it dissociates into its positive ion (cation) Na and its negative ion (anion) CI.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
