Divalent is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 421 anagrams from letters in divalent (adeilntv).
First recorded in 1865-70; di-1 + -valent
Univalent hydrogen and divalent oxygen will then have the symbols H- and -O-.
The elements are divalent in almost all of their compounds, and these compounds in solution give simple, divalent, colorless ions.
A divalent element, on the other hand, will combine with two atoms of a univalent element.
Thus hydrochloric acid is better than sulphuric, on account of the stabilizing effect of the divalent SO4— ion on a negative sol.
Silver acts as a univalent element and calcium as a divalent element in the formation of their respective nitrates and chlorides.
Copper, like iron, forms two series of compounds: in the cuprous compounds it is univalent; in the cupric it is divalent.
But if a divalent atom is in question the charge carried is double, and, similarly, a trivalent atom carries a triple charge.
In the divalent oxygen we meet with the modification called ozone, which, although unstable, changes but slowly into oxygen.
In the other series the metals are divalent and resemble magnesium salts in formulas.