What is "positive charge"

Usage examples of "positive charge".

Into the forward plate a negative charge of electricity was sent, and into the one at the rear a positive charge, just as one end of a horseshoe magnet is positive and will repel the north end of a compass needle, while the other pole of a magnet is negative and will attract it.

What results are sodium ion and potassium ion, each carrying a single positive charge.

It replaces the proton of the hydrogen atom by a positron, an electron with a positive charge.

The increased positive charge of the Earth generally forced the positively charged Solar wind to avoid the planet at a greater distance, and the magnetosphere was enlarged.

For instance, the electron might have a mirror image, an antielectron, that would be identical to the electron in all its properties except that it would have a positive charge rather than a negative one.

These became electrically neutral in a few hours, exploding violently to individual atoms as ambient electrons dissipated their positive charge.