EQUIVALENT WEIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equivalent weight mean? 

• EQUIVALENT WEIGHT (noun)
  The noun EQUIVALENT WEIGHT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: EQUIVALENT WEIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUIVALENT WEIGHT (noun)

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

combining weight; eq; equivalent; equivalent weight

Hypernyms ("equivalent weight" is a kind of...):

atomic mass; atomic weight; relative atomic mass ((chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units)

 Context examples 

A unit of relative amount of a substance equal to one thousandth of an equivalent weight.

(Milliequivalent, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of relative amount of substance concentration equal to one millionth of a gram of an equivalent weight.

(Microgram Equivalent, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of relative amount of a substance equal to one millionth of an equivalent weight.

(Microequivalent, NCI Thesaurus)

A concentration unit measured as a number of one thousandth of an equivalent weight per millimole of substance.

(Milliequivalent per Milliimole, NCI Thesaurus)

A constant used also as a unit of electric charge representing the electric charge carried by one mole (an Avogadro's number) of electrons or one equivalent of ions, and equal to the quantity of electricity that is capable of depositing or liberating one gram equivalent weight of a substance in electrolysis, approximately 9.6494E4 coulombs.

(Faraday, NCI Thesaurus)