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cation

cation

See also: catión and cátion

English

Noun

cation ‎(plural cations)

(chemistry) A positively charged ion—opposed to anion.
(chemistry) The ion in an electrolyzed solution that migrates to the cathode.

Derived terms

Derived terms

Related terms

anion
ion

Translations

a positively charged ion

Armenian: կատիոն (hy) ‎(kation)
Basque: katioi (eu)
Catalan: catió (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 陽離子 (zh), 阳离子 (zh) ‎(yánglízi)
Czech: kationt m
Esperanto: katjono
Finnish: kationi (fi)
French: cation (fr) m
Galician: catión m
German: Kation (de) n
Greek: κατιόν (el) n ‎(katión)
Hungarian: kation (hu)
Ido: kationo (io)
Italian: catione (it) m

Japanese: 陽イオン (ja) ‎(yō ion), カチオン ‎(kachion)
Korean: 양이온 ‎(yang-ion)
Occitan: cation m
Persian: کاتیون (fa) ‎(kâtiyon)
Polish: kation (pl) m
Portuguese: (Europe) catião (pt) m, (Brazil) cátion (pt) m
Romanian: cation (ro) m
Russian: катио́н (ru) m ‎(katión)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: катјон m

Roman: katjon m
Spanish: catión (es) m
Swedish: katjon (sv) c
Tagalog: balipik
Turkish: katyon (tr)

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French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /katjɔ̃/

Noun

cation m ‎(plural cations)

cation

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