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Definition of Electronegative
1. Adjective. Having a negative charge. "Electrons are negative"
Definition of Electronegative
1. a. 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.
2. n. A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis.
Definition of Electronegative
1. Adjective. having a negative electric charge ¹
2. Adjective. (chemistry) tending to attract electrons to form a chemical bond ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Electronegative
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Electronegative
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Electronegative
Literary usage of Electronegative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools by Victor Regnault (1853)
"DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERS FOR RECOGNISING THE electronegative ELEMENT OF BINARY
COMPOUNDS ... The determination of the electronegative element ; that is, ..."
2. Essentials of medical chemistry, organic and inorganic by Lawrence Wolff (1899)
"electronegative Dyads. Which elements compose this group? Sulphur, selenium, and
tellurium (properly oxygen also). Sulphur. What is sulphur ? ..."
3. Clinical electrocardiography by Fredrick Arthur Willius (1922)
"The left arm becomes electronegative to the right arm, and the left leg electronegative
... The apical zone becomes electronegative to the left upper zone, ..."
4. The Medical student's manual of chemistry by Rudolph August Witthaus (1906)
"The results of electrolysis of binary compounds of many elements have shown that
oxygen is electronegative, and the alkali metals (p. ..."
5. Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied for the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1886)
"separated at the positive pole are called electronegative elements, because at the
... One and the same body may be electronegative or electropositive, ..."
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