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/vˈeɪlnsi/
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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
- Objective To evaluate Test-retest reliability of Mandarin monosyllable lists with equivalency in audibility in hearing loss group.
- The degree of flocculation, and hence randomness of particle orientations on sedimentation, generally increases with the concentration and valency of the cations in the solution.
- In organic chemistry it is thus more convenient to describe carbon in terms of its valency than its oxidation numbers.
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- I always felt that we could have been led into war in 2003 for better reasons than the WMD, but the movie doesn't have that ambivalency. Green Zone
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- The results of calculation show that the bonds between lanthanum and coordination atoms have certain extent covalency.
- The only tactic that the GOP seems to understand is tossing out the false equivalency argument. Kaine: GOP 'civil war' pushing moderate Republicans 'overboard'
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- Failure to discriminate between truth and lies leads to the sort of moral equivalency that your post indicates.