Definition of Bivalency

1. n. The quality of being bivalent.

Definition of Bivalency

1. Noun. The quality of being bivalent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bivalency

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Medical Definition of Bivalency

1. The quality of being bivalent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bivalency

bityite
bitzer
biuncinate
biundulant meningoencephalitis
biunique
biuniqueness
biuniquenesses
biuret
biuret reaction
biuret reagent
biuret test
biurets
bivalence
bivalences
bivalencies
bivalency (current term)
bivalent
bivalent antibody
bivalent chromosome
bivalent gas gangrene antitoxin
bivalently
bivalents
bivalued
bivalve
bivalve speculum
bivalved
bivalves
bivalvous
bivalvular
bivane

Literary usage of Bivalency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of Chemistry by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, George Kamensky (1902)
"7 Let mo mention another proof of the bivalency of beryllium which may have passed ... The bivalency of beryllium was thus confirmed in the case both of the ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"... of the same convincing kind as that he had given of the bivalency of oxygen in alcohol, ether, and water. It consisted in the application of the ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1903)
"And oxygen that has been regarded as a very model of bivalency these many years is getting restless, and is beginning to show that it too can do the ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"... when in 1854 he was working out the bivalency of sulphur and oxygen by his investigation of ..."

5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1907)
"... feature of the foregoing is the demonstration that it is unnecessary to provide an hypothesis to explain the reduction of copper from bivalency to ..."

6. The Atomic Theory by Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1881)
"I have drawn attention to one more argument in favour of the duplication of atomic weights, and consequently of the bivalency of certain metals. ..."

7. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1904)
"... matter by a determination of the vapour-density of beryllium chloride, and, quite contrary to their previously held opinion, to establish its bivalency. ..."

8. An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson, William Edwards Henderson (1917)
"With calcium sulfate we have the equation CaSO4 >- Ca+ + + SO4- - ' The double charge corresponds to the bivalency of calcium and of the radical (SO4). ..."

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