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Ion vs Cion - What's the difference?

ion | cion |

As nouns the difference between ion and cion

is that ion is ion (electrically charged atom) while cion is (chiefly|in botanical senses).

ion

English

(wikipedia ion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An atom or group of atoms bearing an electrical charge such as the sodium and chlorine atoms in a salt solution.

    • Derived terms

    * anion * autoion * byion * cation * coion * counterion * gegenion * ionic * ionise, ionize * ionogenic * ionome * macroion * microion * multiion * nebenion * photoion * polyion * sulphion * thermion

    cion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in botanical senses)
  • * 1621–1626' (published posthumously in '''1627 ): , ''Sylva Sylvarum?:?or, A Natural History?;?in ten centuries'', century V, ''Experiments in consort touching the putting back or retardation of germination , ¶?421; reprinted in:
  • * 1838 , The works of Lord Bacon?:?with an introductory essay, and a portrait?;?in two volumes , volume 1, page 133 (London?:?William Ball, Paternoster Row?;?stereotyped and printed by John Childs and son)
    • 421.?Men have entertained a conceit that showeth prettily?;?namely, that if you graft a late-coming fruit upon a stock of a fruit-tree that cometh early, the graft will bear early?;?as a peach upon a cherry?;?and contrariwise, if an early-coming fruit upon a stock of a fruit-tree that cometh late, the graft will bear fruit late?;?as a cherry upon a peach.?But these are but imaginations, and untrue.?The cause is, for that the cion overruleth the stock quite?:?and the stock is but passive only, and giveth aliment, but no motion to the graft.

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