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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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... entitled to the name of the 'New Chemistry' which they commonly receive. But this new chemistry has grown up by the help of hypotheses, such as those of Dalton and of Avogadro, and that singular conception of 'bonds' invented to colligate the facts of 'valency' or 'atomicity,' the first of which took some time to make its way; while the second fell into oblivion, for many years after it was propounded, for lack of empirical justification. As for the third, it may be ...

— The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century • T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley

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