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valency (valence number)

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  • Physical Sciences

a measure of the number of bonds formed by an atom of a given element.

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accept
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take up or receive

inversely proportional
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if one variable increases, the other variable decreases at a fixed rate.

percentage yield
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the ratio of actual yield to theoretical yield in a chemical reaction.

binary compounds
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compounds that consist of only two types of atoms.