Ionic

Ionic can mean from or related to Ionia, the name of the western coast of Asia Minor in the period of ancient Greece.

See:

• Ionic order, a style in classical architecture
• Ionic Greek, a dialect of the Greek language
• Ionic numeral system

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In chemistry, ionic is the property of a chemical that its molecules or atoms are ions or are like ions, i.e. have a surplus (positive) or deficit (negative) (but not an equilibrium) of electric charge, which is the result of adding or removing an electron to the outermost electron shell of the atom or molecule.

See:

• ion
• salt
• ionic compound
• ionic bond
• ionic crystal
• ionic charge

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There is also a band by the name Ionic. See: http://www.ionicmusic.com