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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def as_dict(self):
 """ Creates a dict of composition, energy, and ion name """

        d = {"ion": self.ion.as_dict(), "energy": self.energy,
             "name": self.name}
        return d