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Six example sentences with anion, each labelled with its topic.
In the battery cell each anion drifts toward the positive terminal, carrying its extra electron across the electrolyte.
Technology
Dissolve sea salt in a stockpot and the chloride anion, carrying a surplus electron, drifts free of the sodium.
Cooking
Doctors measure the anion gap by subtracting chloride and bicarbonate, the negative particles, from the positive sodium in blood.
Medicine
Chlorine grabs an electron from sodium and becomes an anion, and the two opposite charges pull the salt crystal together.
Science
Nitrate is the anion that farm runoff carries into rivers, feeding the algae that choke the water each August.
Environment
Sports drinks replace not only sodium but the chloride anion lost in sweat during a long summer run.
Fitness
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