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Definition of Electropositive

1. Adjective. Having a positive charge. "Protons are positive"

Definition of Electropositive

1. a. 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.

2. n. A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.

Definition of Electropositive

1. Adjective. having a positive electric charge ¹

2. Adjective. (chemistry) tending to release electrons to form a chemical bond ¹

3. Noun. (dated chemistry physics) A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Electropositive

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Electropositive

1. 1. 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 electronegative. Usually refers to an element whose atoms tend to lose electrons; e.g., sodium, potassium, calcium. An element that is electropositive in one compound may be electronegative in another, and vice versa. 2. Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid. A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis. Source: Websters Dictionary (21 Jun 2000)

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Literary usage of Electropositive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1895)
"H i- electropositive Elements Li 7 . Na Бе g . 24 Mg В 11.27 Al С 12.28 Si N14.31? О 16.32 S * 19-35s Cl Electronegative Elements. the elements of the ..."

2. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"... while insulated. those below them, the lowest electropositive to those above them. Berzelius' list is oxygen, sulphur, selenium, nitrogen, ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"Thus if we bring together a number of electropositive atoms there is no way in which the electrons in the incomplete sheaths can rearrange themselves to ..."

4. Electricity and Magnetism by Fleeming Jenkin (1887)
"When the electrolyte is changed, an ion may change its electrode, and ions can be classed in a list such that each is electropositive to all which follow; ..."

5. Electricity and Magnetism by Fleeming Jenkin (1881)
"The bases of salts may practically be classed as electropositive ions. ... The practical result is that the base behaves as an electropositive and the acid ..."

6. Elements of Chemistry by Victor Regnault, James Curtis Booth, William L. Faber (1865)
"If, on the contrary, a body which becomes the electropositive element of a voltaic circle be brought into contact with iron, the latter, becoming less ..."

7. The Medical student's manual of chemistry by Rudolph August Witthaus (1906)
"44) that when hydrochloric acid is electrolyzed, hydrogen is given off at the negative pole, and is therefore electropositive, ..."

8. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1913)
"Stark regards the difference between electropositive and negative elements ... An electropositive atom, such as chlorine, will be one with a large positive ..."

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