Ions Quotes

• By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

  Johannes Stark

  Giving, Atoms, Velocity

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• I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other.

  Victoria Finlay

  Agency, Dating, Soul

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.138, Ballantine Books

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• I think theres a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.

  Regis Philbin

  Thinking, Flying, Littles

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• We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Giving, Water, Substance

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• We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.

  Robert Crippen

  Dark, Glowing, Earth

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• Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Molecules, Atoms, Matter

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.165, University of Georgia Press

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• We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

  Johannes Stark

  Moving, Axes, Rays

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• Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Giving Up, Would Be, Substance

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• It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Thinking, Cells

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• I have taken your advice and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions the last I shall have but little occasion for. I had some hot objections made to them here and found myself very much in the condition of the man with his son and Ass who tried to please every body.

  Michael Faraday

  Taken, Son, Science

  "The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: 1832-December 1840, Letters 525-1333".

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• It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds.

  Kristian Birkeland

  Views, Space, Flying

  Kristian Birkeland (1908). “The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902-1903”

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• What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

  Abraham Maslow

  Men, Self, Needs

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• We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked in a remote past in a dying star. The waters of ancient seas set the pattern of ions in our blood. The ancient atmospheres moulded our metabolism.

  George Wald

  Stars, Past, Blood

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• Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Water, Molecules, Atoms

  "Back to Methuselah". Book by George Bernard Shaw, Acis, in Pt. V, 1921.

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• Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, War, Hero

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• It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.

  Oswald Chambers

  Self, Care, Christ

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• The fluoride ion exerts its toxic effect by inhibiting the action of many enzyme systems.

  Hugo Theorell

  Toxic, Fluoride, Enzymes

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• To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

  Scott Stossel

  Home, Fighting, Cells

  "The Prisoner of Stress" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

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• The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.

  Guido Palau

  Thinking, People, Underdog

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Creativity, Past

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• I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most general way, the cosmic ray ionizes the air, setting free many charges - ions and electrons. These charges are captured in a condenser which is made to discharge through the circuit of the motor.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Air, Way

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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

  Plutarch

  Life, Pain, Grief

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• New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determinat ion, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism/ extreme nationalism culture.

  Deepak Chopra

  Religious, Military, Healing

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• Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.

  Clive Barker

  Self, Soul, Body

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Oct 06, 2013

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• Nowadays I'm really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you know what else I miss? Super powers. Why is it now that everybody's like "I can reverse the polarity of your ions!" Like in one big flash everybody's Doctor Strange. I like the guys that can stick to walls and change into sand and stuff. I don't understand anything anymore. And all the girls are wearing nothing, and they all look like they have implants. Well, I sound like a very old man, and a cranky one, but it's true.

  Joss Whedon

  Girl, Wall, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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