positive electricity
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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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Some of these little entities were charged with positive electricity, some with negative; some were electrically neutral or inert.
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It had a charge of positive electricity and its mass was .0000000000000000000000166 gram.
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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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There must therefore be some equivalent of positive electricity, but whether this exists in the form of a sphere or in separate particles we have no definite knowledge.
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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