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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The weight of a substance that will combine with or replace one mole of hydrogen or one-half mole of oxygen. The equivalent weight is equal to the atomic weight divided by the valence.
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- noun chemistry The
atomic weight of anelement orradical divided by itsvalence ; themolecular weight of acompound divided by itscombining power in a specificreaction .
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- noun the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen
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