valency

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" then to "What is the valency of carbon?"?

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Quick take

the phenomenon of forming chemical bonds

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the phenomenon of forming chemical bonds

noun

(biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate

noun

(chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for valency.

noun

the phenomenon of forming chemical bonds

noun

(biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate

noun

(chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent)

Example sentences

" then to "What is the valency of carbon?"?

If you're just aiming to communicate in German, you can ignore noun gender, valency, many tenses, etc.

He's a restaurant reviewer but he draws vocabulary from chemistry, talking about the "dual valency" of a noun.

In chemistry too, I remember being taught about valency and how you could work out the valency of an element by its position on the periodic table.

I asked what valency actually was, either didn't understand or wasn't satisfied with the answer, asked again, and the teacher brushed off my question and carried on the with the lesson.

I don't particularly care which element has how many isotopes and what the valency is and how many other elements it can bond with, though I did memorize the atomic weights of all the elements in the periodic table and Avogardo number and few such stats.