adicityn.
/əˈdɪsᵻti/, U.S. /əˈdɪsᵻdi/ Chemistry. Now disused.
W. Odling's term for: combining power, valency. Cf. monad n. 4, dyad n. 2a, etc.
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atomicity1859
quantivalence1865
valency1869
adicity1882
valence1884
1882 Chem. News 10 Feb. 63/2 He [sc. Odling] next considered the possibility of assigning a fixed limit to this valency or adicity of an atom.
1896 Jubilee Chem. Soc. London (Chem. Soc. Great Brit.) 31 The associated classification of the elements according to their adicities, led in due course to two remarkable conceptions.
1921 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. Trans. 119 561 Odling..always insisted on the distinction between combining value and replaceable value, calling one ‘desmicity’ and the other ‘adicity’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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