The small negatively electrified portion of the atom consists of particles called “electrons,” and these electrons are believed to be indivisible units or atoms of negative electricity.
This distribution of electricity will make the electric force diminish from the cathode to the place where there is as much positive as negative electricity, where it will have its minimum value, and then increase up to the anode.
Just as matter is composed of invisible atoms, so also is negative electricity of an atomic nature.
It is very important, however, to remember that an electron is a particle of negative electricity--a real existing thing.
As you know, we are units of particles of negative electricity, and so this seems a most sensible and suitable name.
The electrified ebonite is said to act by "electrostatic induction" on the tray, and creates on it two induced charges, one of positive and the other of negative electricity.
We picture an atom as a sort of miniature solar system, the electrons (particles of negative electricity) rotating round a central nucleus of positive electricity, as described in the text.
It is now pretty generally accepted that an atom of matter consists of a number of electrons, or charges of negative electricity, held together by a charge of positive electricity.
As we saw, the nucleus of an atom of matter consists of positive electricity which holds together a number of electrons, or charges of negative electricity.
He also discovered that a body charged with positive or negative electricity repels a body free to move when the latter is charged with electricity of like sign, but attracts it if it is charged with electricity of opposite sign, i.
It was then found that when the end plates of Volta's pile were connected to an electroscope the leaves diverged either with positive or negative electricity.
Nairne's machine could give either positive or negative electricity, the first named being collected from the prime conductor carrying the collecting points and the second from the prime conductor carrying the cushion.
The ball A' will give up its charge of negative electricity to the Leyden jar B, and the ball B' will give up its positive charge to the Leyden jar A.
If he meant to imply that positive is the more important of the two, he erred, for many reasons can be given to show the preponderating influence of negative electricity; but it is too late now to change the terminology.
It is held that the tiny particles or electrons that are shot out from the cathode terminal of a vacuum tube with astounding velocity are none other than particles of negative electricity, pure and simple.
It is many times smaller than the hydrogen atom, the smallest of chemical atoms, and it possesses all the properties of negative electricity.
Meanwhile the free electron may hurtle about with its charge of negative electricity, or may combine with some neutral atom and thus give to that neutral atom a negative charge.
In thus escaping an electron takes away its charge of negative electricity, and the previously neutral atom becomes positively electrified.
According to current ideas, however, the more active agent in electrical phenomena is negative electricity, which is believed to consist of (or to provide electrical charges for) exceedingly minute particles called electrons.
When we say that a body has an electrical charge we mean that it has an excess of positive or negative electricity.
One of these parts, he said, was characterized by positive, the other by negative electricity.
Some oxides are positive, others negative, said Berzelius; but acids are characterized by negative electricity, therefore the presence of oxygen in a compound does not always confer on that compound acid properties.
You know I have always looked upon and mentioned the equal repulsion in cases of positive and of negative electricity, as a phenomenon difficult to be explained.
The flat side of the small stone gives the signs of positive electricity; the high side gives the signs of negative electricity.
Acids are compounds of electro-negative bodies and a base, and in them all the electro-negative electricity continues to predominate.
Oxygen and the other supporters of combustion are covered with a coating of negative electricity; while hydrogen, carbon, and the metals, are covered with a coating of positive electricity.
According to the views held by many leading physicists at the present time, ‹negative electricity› consists of ultimate particles of matter called electrons or corpuscles.
This positive electricity, in a given atom, is equal in quantity to the total negative charge of the electrons in the atom, the atoms as such [p043] containing no excess of either positive or negative electricity.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "negative electricity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
