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.
Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid.
A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.
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