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ionist

ionist noun: a scientist who studied ions in solution.

Noun

ionist (plural ionists)

  1. (historical) A scientist who studied ions in solution.
    • It had been nearly 50 years before, in 1888–1898, that Armstrong first tangled with the ionists' ideas and, as Dolby comments, he was “an extreme individualist, who would never yield to the social pressures of a scientific community […]2001, R. W. Cahn, The Coming of Materials Science, page 28

Forms of ionist

pluralionists

Origin of ionist

From ion + -ist.

Questions about ionist

What does ionist mean?
Ionist means a scientist who studied ions in solution.
What part of speech is ionist?
Ionist is a noun.
What is the plural of ionist?
The plural of ionist is ionists.

Words near ionist in the dictionary

  1. ionises
  2. ionising
  3. ionising radiation
  4. Ionism
  5. Ionisms
  6. ionist
  7. ionists
  8. ionium
  9. ionizabilities
  10. ionizability
  11. ionizable

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