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- Electro-negative - a. - 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.
- Electro-negative - a. - Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.
- Electro-negative - n. - A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis.
- Anion - n. - An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro-chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation.
- Halogen - n. - An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also, fluorine and cyanogen. See Chlorine family, under Chlorine.
- Subsesqui- - - A prefix (also used adjectively) denoting the combination of constituents (especially electro-negative and electro-positive bodies) in the proportion of two to three; as, a subsesqui acetate, i. e., a salt having two equivalents of acetic acid to three of the base.