valency

There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency.

It is in this sense that the former has a greater valency and so constitutes a better learning investment.

Valency, in contrast, included the subject from the start.

The table showed that elements with similar properties often shared the same valency.

Valency is the number of electrons used by an atom in bonding.

Some common valencies are shown in table 4.20.

Valencies sometimes have the same numerical values as oxidation numbers - but not always.

His actual father, it was revealed long afterward, was Valency.

Dependency and valency: An international handbook of contemporary research.

The valency of a verb is a related concept.

The number of arguments that a verb takes is called its valency or valence.

These different valency states allow for multiple oxides to be formed from the same two elements.

When the applicative voice is applied to a verb, its valency may be increased by one.

Table 4.23 compares the valency and oxidation numbers of carbon in five compounds.

Thus, both groups have nominal valency 2 and oxidation state +2.

English verbs are often flexible with regard to valency.

The Valency valley is steep-sided and the sides of the lower section are wooded.

Carbon is capable of forming many allotropes due to its valency.

For a cation, the valency is the number of electrons lost in forming the ion.

Mr. Valency is not an author who takes his characters' predicaments too seriously.

In contrast to valency, the transitivity of a verb only considers the objects.

In English, they require a dummy pronoun, and therefore formally have a valency of 1.

Valency generators turned it solid within a second.

Some elements, particularly d-block metals, have multiple valencies (see table 4.21).

Mr. Valency, who is also a playwright and a former professor of drama, does less well with his fictional women.