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Definition of Covalency
1. Noun. Valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share.
Definition of Covalency
1. Noun. (chemistry) (alternative spelling of covalence) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Covalency
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Covalency
Literary usage of Covalency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"In his 1939 definition of ionicity, which he calls /', Pauling states that there
is a sharing of covalency (defined as 1 — i) between resonating bonds in ..."
2. Proceedings of the Workshop on Long-lived Radionuclide Chemistry in Nuclear by NEA Nuclear Science Committee (1998)
"The separation comes from a tiny covalency effect, stronger for An than for Ln
with the soft donor, the role of the hard donor being to remove water ..."
3. Evaluation of Speciation Technology: Workshop Proceedings, Tokai-Mura by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2001)
"... 4f-electrons of the lanthanides, and that the degree of covalency in these
elements is relatively small compared to the covalency in d-group elements. ..."
4. Modelling in Aquatic Chemistry by Ingmar Grenthe, Ignasi Puigdomenech, Bert Allard (1997)
"Ion-ion and ion-dipole interactions are used when discussing chemical bonding in
terms of "ionicity" versus "covalency", and when making correlations of ..."
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