Ion (disambiguation)

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In physics and chemistry, an ion is an atom or group of atoms with a net electric charge.

Ion may also refer to:

Technology

• ION (satellite) (Illinois Observing Nanosatellite), a satellite from the University of Illinois

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
• Ion of Chios, a writer and philosopher

Arts and entertainment

• Ion (DC Comics), a creature in the DC Comics universe
• Ion (Marvel Comics), a super villain in the Marvel Comics universe
• I.O.N, a Japanese science fiction manga by Arina Tanemura
• Ion Television, a television network
• Fon Master Ion, a character from the video game Tales of the Abyss

Brands

• ION Audio, a brand of audio equipment manufacturer Numark Industries
• Ion (chocolate), a Greek chocolate brand
• Alesis Ion, an analog-modeling synthesizer keyboard made by Alesis
• Ion, a defunct communication network formerly advertised by Sprint Nextel
• Ion (paintball marker), made by Smart Parts
• Saturn Ion, an automobile formerly sold by General Motors
• Mitsubishi i-MiEV, sold in Europe as the Peugeot iOn
• Nvidia Ion, an Nvidia platform for the Intel Atom CPU
• Ion, a lighting control console by Electronic Theatre Controls
• Ion rapid transit, a proposed system in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Places

• Ion, a hamlet near to Lower Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England
• Ion River, Romania
• I'On, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a neighborhood

Institutions

• Instituto Oncologico Nacional, or National Oncologic Institute, a specialized hospital in Panama City for cancer treatment
• Institute of Navigation, a non-profit professional society for the advancement of the art and science of navigation

Other

• Ion (name), both a given name and a surname
• Ion (window manager), in computing a window manager for the X Window System
• ION (Index to Organism Names), gathered from the scientific literature for Thomson Reuters' Zoological Record database
• IATA code for Impfondo Airport, Republic of the Congo

See also

• Ionic (disambiguation)

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