what does combining weight mean?
COMBINING WEIGHT as NOUN
- Meaning
- the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element
- the standard is 8 for oxygen
Synonym(s)
Hypernyms(s) combining weight is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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