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In physics and chemistry, an
ion is an atom or molecule with a net electric charge.
Ion or ION may also refer to:
Places
Ion, a hamlet near to Lower
Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire , England
Ion District , a technology park in Houston, Texas
Ion (Greece) , a town of ancient Laconia, Greece
Ion, Iowa , an unincorporated community in the United States
I'On, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina , a neighborhood
ION Orchard , a shopping mall in Singapore
Ion River , Romania
People
Ancient Greece
Ion (dialogue) , a dialogue by Plato, between Socrates and Ion, a reciter of epic poems
Ion (mythology) , the son of Xuthus and Creüsa, daughter of Erechtheus
Ion (play) , a play by Euripides on the relationship between humans and the gods, in which Ion is instead the son of Apollo
Arts and entertainment
Computing and technology
Ion (window manager) , in computing a window manager for the X Window System
Nvidia Ion , an Nvidia platform for the Intel Atom CPU
Ion, a defunct communication network formerly advertised by
Sprint Nextel
ION (satellite) (Illinois Observing Nanosatellite), a satellite from the University of Illinois
Alesis Ion , an analog-modeling synthesizer keyboard made by Alesis
ION Audio , a brand of audio equipment manufacturer Numark Industries
Ion (serialization format) , a data serialization language developed by Amazon
Index to Organism Names (ION), a database of published names in zoology, indexing the content of The Zoological Record
Ion, a command line shell for
Redox operating system
Transport
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term