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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn atom or group of atoms bearing an electrical charge, such as the sodium and chlorine atoms in a salt solution.
From the ending of anion and cation, which in turn is from Ancient Greek ἰόν (ión, “going”), neuter present participle of εἶμι (eîmi, “I go”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday, who introduced it later that year.
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