Ionic

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See also: ion (disambiguation)

Ionic may refer to:

• Ion, in physics and chemistry, an atom or group of atoms with a net electric charge.
  • Ionic bond, a type of chemical bond involving ions.
  • Ionic liquid, a liquid that essentially contains only ions.
• Ionian Islands, seven Greek islands which lie on the eastern coast of the Ionian Sea.
• Ionian Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Southern Italy.
• Ionic order, one of the orders of classical architecture.

In ancient Greece:

• Ionians, a people, one of the four great divisions of the ancient Greek people.
• Ionia, an ancient region in western Anatolia, in which the Ionian settlers established some colonies.
• Ionian Revolt, a revolt by Greek Ionians against the Persian Empire in western Anatolia preceding the Greco-Persian Wars.
• Ionic dialect, any of several related dialects in the ancient Greek language.
• Ionic numeral system, a certain numeral system with Greek numerals.
• Ionic school, in ancient Greek philosophy, founded by Thales of Miletus in Ionia.
• Ionian mode, one of the modes in ancient Greek music.