Electro-negative

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis.

II. Electro-negative ·adj Negative; nonmetallic; acid;

— opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.

III. Electro-negative ·adj Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other.

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