'Combining weight' definitions:
Definition of 'combining weight'
(from WordNet)
noun
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 [syn: equivalent, equivalent weight, combining weight, eq]
Definition of 'Combining weight'
From: GCIDE
- Combine \Com*bine"\, v. i.
- 1. To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate. [1913 Webster]
- You with your foes combine, And seem your own destruction to design --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- So sweet did harp and voice combine. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Card Playing) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played. [1913 Webster]
- Combining weight (Chem.), that proportional weight, usually referred to hydrogen as a standard, and for each element fixed and exact, by which an element unites with another to form a distinct compound. The combining weights either are identical with, or are multiples or submultiples of, the atomic weight. See Atomic weight, under Atomic, a. [1913 Webster]