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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chem., the combining power or value of an atom as compared with that of the hydrogen atom, which is taken as the unit of measure: same as
valence . Also calledatomicity .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.), Archaic Valence.
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- noun chemistry
Valence ; theatomic orcombining power of anelement orradical expressed in terms of the number ofatoms ofhydrogen with which it will unite.
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