positive electricity

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. the electricity present in a body or substance that has a deficiency of electrons, as the electricity developed on glass when rubbed with silk.

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Example Sentences

It had a charge of positive electricity and its mass was .0000000000000000000000166 gram.

From Time Magazine Archive

Max Born, distinguished German exile now in England, guessed that in some distant regions of the universe the rule of the atom might be reversed�negative protons at the core and positive electricity outside.

From Time Magazine Archive

These ions form a kind of electrical conductor: free protons move to the outside of the unit until they have carried away enough positive electricity to make the interior electrically neutral.

From Time Magazine Archive

A proton is a particle of positive electricity.

From Time Magazine Archive

To start the machine the balls were brought in contact, one of the paper armatures electrified, say, with positive electricity, and the disk set in motion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various