Word.ws English Dictionary

heavy ion

heavy ion noun: an ionized atom that is usually heavier than helium.

Noun

heavy ion (plural heavy ions)

  1. (nuclear physics) An ionized atom that is usually heavier than helium.

Forms of heavy ion

pluralheavy ions

Questions about heavy ion

What does heavy ion mean?
Heavy ion means an ionized atom that is usually heavier than helium.
What part of speech is heavy ion?
Heavy ion is a noun.
What is the plural of heavy ion?
The plural of heavy ion is heavy ions.

Words near heavy ion in the dictionary

  1. heavy hitters
  2. heavy hydrogen
  3. heavy icebreaker
  4. heavy icebreakers
  5. heavy industry
  6. heavy ion
  7. heavy ions
  8. heavy legs
  9. heavy lift
  10. heavy lifting
  11. heavy machine gun

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: heavy ion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “heavy ion.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/heavy_ion. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.