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  • noun organic chemistry Any cation of the form R2X+, in which X is a positively-charged halogen

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  • Examples include onium and carboxonium ions, acyl cations, halonium, azonium, carbozonium ions, even certain substituted carbocations and the like.

    George A. Olah - Autobiography 1995

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