- 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. - Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to
positive, metallic, or basic. - A body which passes to the positive pole in
electrolysis.
- Of such a nature relatively to some other
associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic
battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the
positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of electro-negative. - Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; --
distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid. - A body which passes to the negative pole in
electrolysis.