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   Electro-negative, Electronegative (?), a. (Chem. & Physics)
   1. 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
   
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   2. Negative; nonmetallic; acidic; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.
   
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   3. (Physics) carrying a negative electrical charge.
   
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   4. (Chem. and Physics) having a tendency to take up electrons and form negative ions; having a relatively positive electrode potential.
   
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   Electro-negative, n. (Chem. & Physics) A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis; an anion.
   
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