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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ELECTRO-POSITIVE

a.Attracted by bodies negatively electrified, or by the negative pole of the galvanic arrangement.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ELECTRO-POSITIVE

ELECTRO-POSITIVE E *lec `tro-pos "i *tive, a.

Defn: 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.

Note: An element that is electro-positive in one compound may be electro-negative in another, and vice versa.

2. (Chem. )

Defn: Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid.

ELECTRO-POSITIVE

ELECTRO-POSITIVE E *lec `tro-pos "i *tive, n. (Chem. & Physics )

Defn: A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.