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Contents 1 Ancient Greece 2 Contemporary culture 3 Brands 4 Institutions 5 Other 6 See also

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

Ion may also refer to:

[edit] 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.
• Ion of Chios, a writer and philosopher.

[edit] Contemporary culture

• Ion (DC Comics), a creature in the DC Comics universe
• Ion (Marvel Comics), a super villain in the Marvel Comics universe
• I.O.N, a manga by Arina Tanemura

[edit] Brands

• ION Audio, an audio equipment manufacturer
• Ion (chocolate), a Greek chocolate brand
• Alesis Ion, an analog-modeling synthesizer keyboard made by Alesis
• Ion (network), a defunct communications network formerly advertised by Sprint
• Ion (paintball marker), a paintball marker manufactured by Smart Parts
• Saturn Ion, an automobile sold by General Motors
• Ion Television, a television network

[edit] Institutions

• Instituto Oncologico Nacional, or National Oncologic Institute, a specialized hospital in Panama City for cancer treatment
• Institute of Navigation, a non-profit professional society for the advancement of the art and science of navigation

[edit] Other

• Ion (window manager), in computing, a window manager for the X Window System
• Ion (name), the Romanian equivalent of John
• Ion (nVidia platform), An nVidia platform for the Intel Atom CPU

[edit] See also

• Ionic

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