Ion has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | Suffixes, 1: "-ion" creates nouns that show the meaning of 'action, state, process, results,' and so on. | |
| 2. | This spacecraft is powered by ion thrusters. | |
| 3. | An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electric charge. | |
| 4. | Lithium-ion batteries are a class of batteries that uses redox reactions involving lithium. | |
| 5. | Lithium-ion batteries are found everywhere from smartphones and laptops to electric cars. | |
| 6. | This instrument is what’s known as a Faraday cup, a sensor designed to measure the ion and electron fluxes and flow angles from the solar wind. | |
| 7. | The cargo craft will carry more than four tons of supplies, water, spare parts and experiment hardware for the station crew, including six new lithium-ion batteries needed to complete an overall update of the station’s electrical system. | |
| 8. | A cation is a positively charged ion, with more protons than electrons, while an anion is negatively charged, with more electrons than protons. | |
| 9. | An electrolysis is a passage of direct current through an ion-conducting solution, producing a chemical change at the electrodes. | |
| 10. | Cassidy and fellow astronaut Bob Behnken have conducted the first of at least four spacewalks to replace the last in series of old nickel-hydrogen batteries with new, more efficient lithium-ion batteries. |