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

A proton is a particle of positive electricity.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Since electrons are negative electricity, their departure covers the glass with an invisible picture in positive electricity.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is now believed that all matter is made up of "electrons," particles of negative electricity, and "protons," particles of positive electricity.

From Time Magazine Archive

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)