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primary valences

primary valences is the plural of primary valence.

Meaning of primary valence

Noun

primary valence (plural primary valences)

  1. in a coordination compound, the number of negative ions needed to satisfy the charge on the central metal ion

Questions about primary valences

What is primary valences the plural of?
Primary valences is the plural of primary valence.

Words near primary valences in the dictionary

  1. primary times
  2. primary tooth
  3. primary transcript
  4. primary transcripts
  5. primary valence
  6. primary valences
  7. primary work
  8. primary works
  9. primary world
  10. primary worlds
  11. primarying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: primary valences (page history and authors); primary valence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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