Ion
['aɪən]
Definition
(noun.) a particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons.
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Definition
(n.) One of the elements which appear at the respective poles when a body is subjected to electro-chemical decomposition. Cf. Anion, Cation.
Typist: Malcolm
Definition
n. one of the components into which an electrolyte is broken up on electrolysis—the Anion the electro-negative component chemically attacking the anode and the Cation the electro-positive component the cathode.
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Examples
- The early official history of the Royal Society (Sprat, 1667) says that this proposal hastened very much the adopt ion of a plan of organization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- One of Plato's associates, working under his direct ion, investigated the curves produced by cutting cones of different kinds in a certain plane. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- On the other hand, Galton, after his classical study of mental imagery (1883), stated that scientific men, as a class, have feeble powers of visual representat ion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Werner considered all rocks as having originated by crystallization, either chemical or mechanical, from an aqueous solut ion--a universal primitive ocean. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Later we find ment ion of teachers of architecture and mechanics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He was a vivisector, made sections of the brain in order to determine the funct ions of its parts, and severed the gustatory, optic, and auditory nerves with a similar end in view. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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