different between cation vs sulfonium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (katión, “(thing) going down”), neuter past participle of ??????? (káteimi, “go down”), from ???? (katá, “down”) (see cata-) + ???? (eîmi, “go”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday, who introduced it later that year.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?t?-?-?n
• IPA^(key): /?kæt.a?.?n/

Noun

cation (plural cations)

1. (physical chemistry) a positively charged ion, i.e. one that would be attracted to the cathode in electrolysis

Derived terms

Related terms

• anion
• ion

Translations

References

• cation at OneLook Dictionary Search
• cation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “cation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “cation”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Catino, actino-, action, atonic

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.tj??/

Noun

cation m (plural cations)

1. cation

Further reading

• “cation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• action, contai

Romanian

Etymology

From French cation

Noun

cation m (plural cationi)

1. cation

Declension

Related terms

• cationic

English

Etymology

sulfo- +? onium

Alternative forms

• sulphonium

Noun

sulfonium (countable and uncountable, plural sulfoniums)

1. (inorganic chemistry) the univalent H₃S⁺ cation, derived from sulfane
2. (organic chemistry) any derivative of this cation in which one or more hydrogen atoms are replaced by organic radicals

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• fluminous, fulminous