positive electricity
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Some of these little entities were charged with positive electricity, some with negative; some were electrically neutral or inert.
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It is now believed that all matter is made up of "electrons," particles of negative electricity, and "protons," particles of positive electricity.
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As the process continues, the raindrops become heavily loaded with positive electricity, while the rising air carries negative electricity to the top of the cloud.
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Since electrons are negative electricity, their departure covers the glass with an invisible picture in positive electricity.
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The sun furnishes the positive electricity and the planet or satellite the negative, and from these two spring all the cosmic and material forces of the universe.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder
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