ionist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ion +‎ -ist

Noun[edit]

ionist (plural ionists)

  1. (historical) A scientist who studied ions in solution.
    • 2001, R. W. Cahn, The Coming of Materials Science, page 28:
      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 […]
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