What is the meaning of valency?

noun

  • The phenomenon of forming chemical bonds.
  • Biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate.
  • Chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent. ().
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