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Electronegative, Electro-negative adj. (Chem. & Physics)

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. Contrasted with neutral and electropositive

Negative; nonmetallic; acidic; opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.

(Physics) Carrying a negative electrical charge.

(Chem. and Physics) Having a tendency to take up electrons and form negative ions; having a relatively positive electrode potential.

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Etymology of 'Electronegative'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... action on the common or yellow ferrocyanuret. In this process nascent oxygen is absorbed, hydrogen given off, and the characters of the resulting compound in respect of the oxides of iron, forming as it does Prussian blue with proto salts, indicate an excess of electro-negative energy, a disposition to part with oxygen, or which is the same thing, to absorb hydrogen (in the presence of moisture), and thereby to return to its pristine state, under circumstances of moderate solicitation, such as the affinity of protoxide of iron (for instance) ...

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