English
supercation
From super- + cation.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- ‘to go’
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Proto-Hellenic *éimi ‘to go’
Ancient Greek εἶμῐ ‘to go, come’
Ancient Greek κᾰ́τειμῐ ‘to go down, come down’
Ancient Greek κᾰτῐόν
English cation
Today it means
noun A cation, consisting of a large cluster of atoms, in which the positive charge is spread over many atoms
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