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A positively charged hypervalent ion of the nonmetallic elements.
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Examples are the methonium ion CH<sub>5</sub><sup>+</sup>, the hydrogenonium ion H<sub>3</sub><sup>+</sup> and and the hydronium ion H<sub>3</sub>O<sup>+</sup>.  Other examples are the carbonium, oxonium, sulfonium, nitronium, diazonium, phosphonium, and halonium ions. Onium ions are not limited to monopositive ions; multiply-charged onium ions exist such as the gitonic (proximal) oxonium dication H<sub>4</sub>O<sup>2+</sup> and the [[distonic]] oxonium dication H<sub>2</sub>O<sup>+</sup>-CH<sub>2</sub>-CH<sub>2</sub>-OH<sub>2</sub><sup>+</sup>. }}   
 
== Related Terms ==
 
*[[Enium Ion]]


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Latest revision as of 12:38, 4 April 2014

DRAFT DEFINITION
Onium ion
Related Term(s): onium compounds
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