In 1950, Chairman Mao Zedong made a speech in support of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) which was influenced by political necessity. Zedong believed he and the Chinese Communist Party should promote TCM but he did not personally believe in TCM and he did not use it.
Yes. The ammonium ion has a formula of NH4+ and has a positive charge so it is a cation.
Asker's rating. 1  A cation is a positive ion (Na+), it is usually a metal, it is on the left side of a compound, and will normally form a base with the hydroxide ion and one such example is NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide). Hydrogen is an exception to the rule that metals are cations because it has a +1 charge.