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- Electro-positive - 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.
- Electro-positive - a. - Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid.
- Electro-positive - n. - A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.
- Cation - n. - An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion.
- 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.
- Caesium - n. - A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water; -- so called from the two characteristic blue lines in its spectrum. It was the first element discovered by spectrum analysis, and is the most strongly basic and electro-positive substance known. Symbol Cs. Atomic weight 132.6.