Combining Weight (Noun)
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.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- Combining weight of carbon is defined as 6 parts of carbon being capable of displacing one part of oxygen in forming carbon monoxide.
- Hydrogen's combining weight of one has made it the fundamental element of chemical weight in certain industries.
- Using hydrogen's combining weight to represent all the atomic weights may bring relative differences closer.
- Historically the relative combining weights were taken with oxygen fixed as a value of eight due to several facts such as volume or gas interactions in combining oxygen in nature to some atomic relation value set standards so comparing equal amount on various known chemistry effects might only approximate correctly true other possible reference factors existing yet potentially remain today using somewhat artificially adapted choices just considered proportional though convenient this combination relates often then termed useful rule setting established numbers roughly making acceptable also roughly applying current concept meaning general approach known relatively many applicable weights accepted giving adequate chemistry as base fairly rational from much careful other detail all giving support later findings possibly accepted using careful best applied basis finally modern adapted detail this base roughly working system understanding though fairly broad knowledge detail given from various real condition experiment established working roughly through known and recorded details in broader scope fairly in detail then applied clearly resulting simply one modern base fact remaining accepted weight form.
- Prior to hydrogen's accepted weight of one for its combining weight one the oxygen weight to facilitate explanation purposes having assumed set at sixteen.