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graph showing electrical impulses

Ion movement across a semipermeable membrane

How different solutions conduct electricity

Investigate the magnetlike ionic bond formed when electrons transfer from one atom to another

Follow the electrical and chemical changes undergone to transmit an impulse through the human nervous system

What is the purpose of electrolytes?

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carbanion carbonium ion ionization carboxylate ion molecular ion lyonium ion uranyl ion lyate ion sulfonate ion sulfate ion isotope radical diatomic molecule subatomic particle radioactivity atomism periodic table magnetic resonance atomic physics fundamental force

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Dennis Robert Hoagland

American botanist

David Wineland, 2012.

David Wineland

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Wolfgang Paul

German physicist

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Pyotr Petrovich Lazarev

Soviet physicist and biophysicist