positive electricity
Americannoun
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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.
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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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A proton is a particle of 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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The result of this arrangement is, that the free negative electricity is carried off by the earth-wire, and the limb remains charged with free positive electricity.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
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