-
number of
these atoms. This "combining power" was
afterwards called quantivalence or
valency (and
valence by
American chemists). In 1857
August Kekulé...
- multivalent, nonequivalence, prevail, prevalence, prevalent, quadrivalent,
quantivalence, reevaluate, reevaluation, revaluation, revalue, transvaluation, transvalue...
- he also
first introduced the term valence,
under its
longer variant quantivalence, to
describe the
combining capacity of an atom. His
textbook strongly...
