You can make 521 anagrams from letters in trivalent (aeilnrttv).
1865-70; tri- + valent
Similarly, we have trivalent, tetravalent, pentavalent elements.
It can also act as a trivalent metal, and in this condition forms salts similar to those of aluminium.
The trivalent hydroxides are too weak bases390 to form stable salts with so weak an acid as carbonic acid.
Antimony acts as a trivalent element in the formation of a chloride.
Triatomic, trī-a-tom′ik, adj. consisting of three atoms: trivalent.
But if a divalent atom is in question the charge carried is double, and, similarly, a trivalent atom carries a triple charge.
The trivalent metals, which in addition to aluminium include also iron and chromium, are sometimes called the earth metals.
Write the general formula of an alum, representing an atom of an alkali metal by X and an atom of a trivalent metal by Y.
Thus the oxide of the trivalent metal aluminium has the formula Al2O3.
Similarly, a trivalent atom, such as that of Nitrogen, can unite with three monovalent atoms.