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Valency

noun
(pl. valencies)
1.
The phenomenon of forming chemical bonds.
2.
(biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate.  Synonym: valence.
3.
(chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent).  Synonym: valence.



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"Valency" Quotes from Famous Books



... great claim to remembrance is that he first suggested, "on the basis of Faraday's law of Electrolysis, that an absolute unit of quantity of electricity exists in that amount of it which attends each chemical bond or valency and gave the name, now generally adopted, of electron to this small quantity." He proposed the electronic theory of the origin of the complex ether vibrations which proceed from a ...
— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox


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