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Valency

noun

(pl. valencies)

The phenomenon of forming chemical bonds.

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

(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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... combining with a definite quantity of an individual base. The terms "chemical appetite" and "specific chemical appetite" are names I have coined for your present benefit, but for which chemists would use the words "affinity" and "valency" respectively. Now some acids have a moderate specific appetite, whilst others possess a large one, and the same may be said of bases, and thus as an example we may have mono-, di-, and tri-acid salts, or mono-, di-, and tri-basic salts. In a tri-acid ...

— The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing - Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association • Watson Smith

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