A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

IONS

Mon, 31 Jul '23
Atoms with charges
Sun, 18 Jun '23
They're never free of charge
Thu, 15 Jun '23
Particles proposed by Michael Faraday in the 1830s
Sat, 27 May '23
They have their pluses and minuses
Thu, 24 Nov '22
Ones colliding in the Large Hadron Collider
Fri, 3 Sep '21
Table salt is made of them
Sun, 15 Aug '21
Accelerator particles
Wed, 27 Jan '21
Na+ and Cl-