Ion (disambiguation)

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In physics and chemistry, an ion is an atom or group of atoms with a net electric charge.

Ion may also refer to:

Places

• Ion, a hamlet near to Lower Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England
• Ion, Iowa, an unincorporated community in the United States
• I'On, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a neighborhood
• Ion River, Romania

People

• Ion (name), both a given name and a surname

Ancient Greece

• Ion (dialogue), a dialogue by Plato, between Socrates and Ion, a reciter of epic poems
• Ion (mythology), the son of Xuthus and Creüsa, daughter of Erechtheus
• Ion (play), a play by Euripides on the relationship between humans and the gods, in which Ion is instead the son of Apollo

Arts and entertainment

Computing and technology

• Ion (window manager), in computing a window manager for the X Window System
• Nvidia Ion, an Nvidia platform for the Intel Atom CPU
• Ion, a defunct communication network formerly advertised by Sprint Nextel
• ION (satellite) (Illinois Observing Nanosatellite), a satellite from the University of Illinois
• Alesis Ion, an analog-modeling synthesizer keyboard made by Alesis
• ION Audio, a brand of audio equipment manufacturer Numark Industries
• Ion, a lighting control console by Electronic Theatre Controls
• Ion (serialization format), a data serialization language developed by Amazon

Transport

• Mitsubishi i-MiEV, sold in Europe as the Peugeot iOn
• Saturn Ion, an automobile formerly sold by General Motors
• Ion rapid transit, an under-construction system in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Institutions

• Institute of Navigation
• Instituto Oncologico Nacional, Panama City

Other uses

• ION, IATA code for Impfondo Airport, Republic of the Congo
• Ion (chocolate), a Greek chocolate brand
• iON (IPTV), a US-based IPTV provider
• Ion Television, a television network
• Ion (paintball marker), made by Smart Parts

See also

• Ionic (disambiguation)