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  • noun Plural form of anion.

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  • The portfolio will comprise a selection of the ion exchanger grades in the business unit's current product range such as anions, cations and mixed beds.

    India eNews 2009

  • The portfolio will comprise a selection of the ion exchanger grades in the business unit's current product range such as anions, cations and mixed beds.

    India eNews 2009

  • In case you slept through sixth-grade science, anions are negatively charged atoms or groups of atoms, with more negatively charged electrons than positively charged protons.

    Low-cost computer-mounted air filter makes lofty promises 2010

  •   In case you slept through sixth-grade science, anions are negatively charged atoms or groups of atoms, with more negatively charged electrons than positively charged protons.

    Low-cost computer-mounted air filter makes lofty promises 2010

  • The anions are -1 because their 17 protons have a charge of +17, and their 18 electrons have a charge of -18, giving a sum of -1.

    Elements 2009

  • If implanted by the solar wind after eruption, hydrogen measured by the OH- anions sputtered from the glass should be higher near the surface of each bead.

    Water on the Moon: What Does it Mean? | Universe Today 2009

  • As illustrated in Figure 1, oxygen atoms commonly form anions with a -2 charge, O2 -, by gaining 2 electrons and therefore changing from eight protons and 8 electrons to 8 protons (+8) and ten electrons (-10).

    Ion 2009

  • The anions are -1 because their 17 protons have a charge of +17, and their 18 electrons have a charge of -18, giving a sum of -1.

    Ion 2009

  • As illustrated in Figure 11, oxygen atoms commonly form anions with a -2 charge, O2 -, by gaining 2 electrons and therefore changing from eight protons and 8 electrons to 8 protons (+8) and ten electrons (-10).

    Elements 2009

  • Mass-balance estimation of heavy metals and selected anions at a landfill receiving MSWI bottom ash and mixed construction wastes [An article from: Journal of Hazardous Materials] by J.K. Oygard

    Obama, the Chosen One 2008

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