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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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  1. a. Having the property of being attracted by an positive">electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other.
  2. a. Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.
  3. n. A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis.
  4. (a) Having the property of being attracted by an positive">electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other. (b) Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic. A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis.
  5. A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis.