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NOUN
- the phenomenon of forming chemical bonds
- (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent)
- (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate
How To Use valency In A Sentence
- False equivalency is when you baselessly assert that the idiocy and dangerous thinking in plain view at any number of tea-bagger assemblies is evident at similar (unspecified) rallies “on the left”. Think Progress » Blackburn Won’t Endorse Bachmann’s ‘Gangster Government’ Rhetoric
- Empedocles says, that the similitude of children to their parents proceeds from the vigorous prevalency of the generating sperm; the dissimilitude from the evaporation of the natural heat it contains. Essays and Miscellanies
- At other points, though, there's again ambivalency or spot-on choices slamming up against head-shaking "Wait, why?" decisions. Ned Raggett Ponders It All
- Objective To evaluate Test-retest reliability of Mandarin monosyllable lists with equivalency in audibility in hearing loss group.
- No, moral equivalency is taking two separate unlike things and attempting to make them equivalent in order to excuse nonequivalent behaviour. Jesse Jackson, Day 2.
- Sept. 11 leaves the ‘moral equivalency’ muddlers exposed as sophists and charlatans.
- So long as either of these worketh in us with any kind of prevalency, it is impossible we should have any delight in calling upon God. Pneumatologia
- The group lithium - sodium - potassium has a valency of one, as does the group chlorine - bromine - iodine.
- In organic chemistry it is thus more convenient to describe carbon in terms of its valency than its oxidation numbers.
- Carbon has a valency of 4.