ionist

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noun

A scientist who studied ions in solution.

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Meanings

nounionist (plural ionists)

plural ionists

  1. historicalA 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

Origin

From ion + -ist.

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APA

ionist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ionist

MLA

“ionist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ionist. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ionist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ionist.

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