combining weight
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Fifty c.c. neutral alcohol are added, and the solution titrated with N/1 KOH or NaOH solution, the percentage of rosin being calculated from its combining weight.
From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by Simmons, W. H.
The least combining weight of an element is its atomic weight; and it is this fact of a least combining weight that leads us to believe the atom to be indivisible.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips
If any compound of O should in future be found in which its combining weight is 8 or 4, that would be called its atomic weight.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips
According to Lewkowitsch, the results obtained by the volumetric method which assumes a combining weight of 346 for resin acids, are very likely to be high.
From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by Thomssen, E. G.
If we divide the combining weight of any of the substances by the constant 28.87, then the quotient will be the specific gravity of the gas or vapor therefrom, as compared with air.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various
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