Ionic
Adjective:
- Relating to Ionia, its inhabitants, or its language: Pertaining to the ancient region of Ionia in Asia Minor, its people, or the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken there.
- Relating to the Ionic order of architecture: Pertaining to one of the classical orders of Greek architecture, characterized by scroll-shaped capitals on the columns.
- Relating to or involving ions: In chemistry and physics, describing something that contains, involves, or occurs in the form of ions (atoms or molecules with a net electric charge).
Noun:
- The Ionic dialect: The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica, Athens, and Ionia.
Adjective:
- The museum displayed artifacts from the Ionic civilization. (Relating to Ionia)
- The temple's elegant columns were built in the Ionic style. (Relating to architecture)
- Table salt forms an ionic bond between sodium and chloride ions. (Relating to ions)
Noun:
- Some of Homer's epics were originally composed in Ionic. (The dialect)
"Ionic compound": A chemical compound composed of ions held together by ionic bonds.
- Sodium chloride (NaCl) is a common ionic compound.
"Ionic strength": A measure of the concentration of ions in a solution.
- The reaction rate is affected by the solution's ionic strength.
Ion (n): An atom or molecule with a net electric charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons.
- A positive ion is called a cation.
Ionize (v): To convert or be converted into ions.
- Strong acids ionize completely in water.
Ionicity (n): The degree to which a bond or compound is ionic in character.
- The ionicity of the bond affects the material's properties.
- Electrovalent: (Chemistry) Relating to bonds formed by the transfer of electrons, synonymous with 'ionic' in this context.
- Classical: (Architecture) Can broadly relate to styles like the Ionic order, though less specific.
Ionic bond: A type of chemical bond formed through the electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions.
- An ionic bond is typically formed between a metal and a non-metal.
Ionic equation: A chemical equation in which dissolved ionic compounds are written as dissociated ions.
- The net ionic equation shows only the species that participate in the reaction.
(Note: 'Ionic' is a technical/scientific term and is not commonly used in idiomatic expressions.)
- of or relating to Ionia or its inhabitants or its language
- of or pertaining to the Ionic order of classical Greek architecture
- containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions
- ionic charge
- ionic crystals
- ionic hydrogen
- the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia