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  • He buys a notebook and draws up plans for cloud chambers, ion detectors, X-ray goggles.†  (source)
    ion = an atom that has acquired an electrical charge by the loss or gain of an electron
  • I said, "Ion would be welcome at our lunch table tomorrow."†  (source)
  • Hermes has a constant-thrust ion engine.†  (source)
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  • It was the only time that Vhaghar, Meraxes, and Baler-ion were all unleashed at once.†  (source)
    ion = an atom that has acquired an electrical charge by the loss or gain of an electron
  • She explained the disabling device's funct:ions to Thomas in a curt, efficient manner.†  (source)
    ions = atoms with an electrical charge caused by the loss or gain of an electron
  • He nodded to photos on his bookshelves, of Morrie as a child with his grandmother; Morrie as a young man with his brother, David; Morrie with his wife, Charlotte; Morrie with his two sons, Rob, a journalist in Tokyo, and ion, a computer expert in Boston.†  (source)
    ion = an atom that has acquired an electrical charge by the loss or gain of an electron
  • Ionic means containing ions-electrically charged particles.†  (source)
    ions = atoms with an electrical charge caused by the loss or gain of an electron
  • Those old video systems emit faint ion beams.†  (source)
    ion = an atom that has acquired an electrical charge by the loss or gain of an electron
  • Quang-ha then mutters: "What's really being measured are ions of hydrogen."†  (source)
    ions = atoms with an electrical charge caused by the loss or gain of an electron
  • Far away on the opposite spiral arm of the Galaxy, five hundred thousand light-years from the star Sol, Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Imperial Galactic Government, sped across the seas of Damogran; his ion drive delta boat winking and flashing in the Damogran sun.†  (source)
    ion = an atom that has acquired an electrical charge by the loss or gain of an electron
  • The electricity in the air has changed; it's like you can smell the ions dancing.†  (source)
    ions = atoms with an electrical charge caused by the loss or gain of an electron
  • But long before the child learns to talk properly—and Ion before it learns to think philosophically—the world we have become a habit.†  (source)
    Ion = an atom that has acquired an electrical charge by the loss or gain of an electron
  • "Now let's find the den ions...' "That might be sooner than you think," remarked Tock, looking back at the suddenly trembling hug; and the trail turned again and continued to climb.†  (source)
    ions = atoms with an electrical charge caused by the loss or gain of an electron
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