"Negative charge" Quotes from Famous Books
... gravitation. [objects which attract by physical force] lodestone, loadstone, lodestar, loadstar^; magnet, permanent magnet, siderite, magnetite; electromagnet; magnetic coil, voice coil; magnetic dipole; motor coil, rotor, stator. electrical charge; positive charge, negative charge. magnetic pole; north pole, south pole; magnetic monopole. V. attract, draw; draw towards, pull towards, drag towards; adduce. Adj. attracting &c v.; attrahent^, attractive, adducent^, adductive^. centrifugal. Phr. ubi mel ibi apes ... — Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... upon a number of factors. All this, of course, is old stuff; even the photon-neutrino interchange has been known since the mid-'50s, when the Gamow neutrino-counter was developed. But now we come to what you have been so good as to christen the Sugihara Effect—the neutrino picking up a negative charge and, in effect, turning into an electron, and then losing its charge, turning back into a neutrino, and then, as in the case of metal heated to incandescence, being emitted again ... — The Mercenaries • Henry Beam Piper |