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combining weight
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Combining weight
(gcide) | Combine \Com*bine"\, v. i.
1. To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate.
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You with your foes combine,
And seem your own destruction to design --Dryden.
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So sweet did harp and voice combine. --Sir W.
Scott.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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combining weight
(wn) | combining weight
n 1: 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] |
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Combining weight
(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.
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So sweet did harp and voice combine. --Sir W.
Scott.
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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.
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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.
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