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

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

Some of these little entities were charged with positive electricity, some with negative; some were electrically neutral or inert.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Each receives the positive electricity from the sun, which it draws by reason of its negative polarity.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward