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

It had a charge of positive electricity and its mass was .0000000000000000000000166 gram.

From Time Magazine Archive

A proton is a particle of positive electricity.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the process continues, the raindrops become heavily loaded with positive electricity, while the rising air carries negative electricity to the top of the cloud.

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

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