Ions Quotes

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

  Abraham Maslow

  Men, Self, Needs

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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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• 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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• The emergence of Casual Fridays has created a fine line of fashion ion dos and donts.

  Michael Perlis

  Friday, Fashion, Lines

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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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• My homies used to call me ' ions,' and at the time I didn't have no millions, so I ain't really want to be called 'Millions,' so I just shortened it down to . ' i,' my friends used to call me.

  Meek Mill

  Want, Homies, Used

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• Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking down of ions, electrons and molecules, an unshakable determination to tell it all. One is amazed by the mole-like diligence of the man, and no less by his exasperating disregard for the ease of his readers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Determination, Writing

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• Among nonclassical ions the ratio of conceptual difficulty to molecular weight reaches a maximum with the cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl system.

  Paul Doughty Bartlett

  Weight, Ratios, Difficulty

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• Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.

  David Sedaris

  Air, Imagination, Answers

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.

  Isaac Newton

  Jewels, Sea, Watches

  Sir Isaac Newton (1977). “1718-1727”

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• GWEN is a superb system, in combination with cyclotron resonance, for producing behavioural alterations in the civilian population. The average strength of the steady geomagnetic field varies from place to place across the United States. Therefore, if one wished to resonate a specific ion in living things in a specific locality, one would require a specific frequency for that location. The spacing of GWEN transmitters 200 miles apart across the United States would allow such specific frequencies to be 'tailored' to the geomagnetic-field strength in each GWEN area.

  Robert O. Becker

  Average, Fields, Location

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