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electro-positive

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Attracted by bodies negatively electrified, or by the negative pole of a voltaic battery.
  • Assuming positive potential when in contact with another substance, as zinc in a voltaic cell.
  • noun A body which in electrolysis appears at the negative pole of a voltaic battery. Potassium is the most electropositive of all known bodies. See electrolysis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Physics) Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of electro-negative.
  • adjective (Chem.) Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid.
  • noun (Chem. & Physics) A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a positive charge

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Examples

  • The first perceives acid or electro-positive tastes through the two lingual nerves; the second detects alkaline tastes by the two glosso-pharyngeal nerves.

    The Art of Living in Australia 2004

  • When the current passes there is formed according to the nature of the electrolyte, a hydrogen amalgam, or an amalgam of hydrogen with a metal electro-positive to hydrogen.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various

  • When two metals in good electrical contact are immersed in some liquid that is capable of attacking both, only that metal will be attacked which is the more electro-positive, or which (the same thing in other words) is the more readily attacked by the liquid, evolving the more heat during its dissolution.

    Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

  • The reason for this difference is self-evident; here a foreign metal is brought into electrical contact with the apparatus in order that the latter may be made electro-negative; but when a joint is soldered with lead, the metal of the generator is unintentionally made electro-positive.

    Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

  • As long as this action is proceeding, as long, that is, as some of the more electro - positive material is present, the less electro-positive material will not suffer.

    Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

  • This process has the advantage of producing not only a hydrogen amalgam, but also at will an amalgam of hydrogen combined with any metal electro-positive to this latter.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various

  • In a somewhat different manner the voltaic current is made use of in ordinary qualitative analysis for the detection of tin, antimony, silver, lead, arsenic, etc., by employing a more electro-positive metal to precipitate a less electro-positive one from its solution.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Various

  • The first perceives acid or electro-positive tastes through the two lingual nerves; the second detects alkaline tastes by the two glosso-pharyngeal nerves.

    The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

  • It was thus that man in this state of consciousness was compelled to picture the foundation of the physical universe as being made up of gravity and electricity, as we meet them in the modern picture of the atom, with its heavy electro-positive nucleus and the virtually weightless electro-negative electrons moving round it.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • A conclusion previously arrived at was also confirmed, viz., that the liquids in which the hot metal was thermo-electro-positive in the largest proportion of cases were those containing highly electro-positive bases, such as the alkali metals.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 Various

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