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ionists

ionists is the plural of ionist.

Meaning of ionist

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

Questions about ionists

What is ionists the plural of?
Ionists is the plural of ionist.

Words near ionists in the dictionary

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

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