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EQUIVALENT

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 727 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EQUIVALENT , in See also:

chemistry, the proportion of an See also:element which will combine with or replace unit See also:weight of See also:hydrogen. When multiplied by the See also:valency it gives the atomic weight. The determination of equivalent weights is treated in the See also:article See also:STOICHIOMETRY. (See also CHEMISTRY.) In a more See also:general sense the See also:term " equivalent " is used to denote quantities of sub-stances which neutralize one another, as for example NaOH, HC1, H2SO4, zBa(OH)2.

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