positive electricity
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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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In the Birkhoff system, the hydrogen atom is contemplated as a mixture of two "perfect fluids"�the positive electricity of the nucleus, the negative electricity of the surrounding electron.
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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.
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Of course there is the other part, of which I am forbidden to speak—the part which man vaguely describes as positive electricity.
From Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion by Gibson, Charles R. (Charles Robert)
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