combining weight
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The number 75 is spoken of as the "combining weight," or, more frequently, as the "atomic weight" of arsenic.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
By taking the equivalent or some multiple of it a value can be obtained for each element which will represent its combining value, and for this reason is called its combining weight.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson
Twitchell suggests 346 as the combining weight of rosin, but 330 is a closer approximation.
From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. Simmons
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 Rufus Phillips Williams
Mr. Wade conceived the idea of combining weight and protection in the cable itself.
From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Maurice Joblin
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