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What do you mean by valency. Explain valency by taking examples of oxygen, silicon,sodium, chlorine

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Answered by chaman82
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The combining capacity of an element is called valency. This is equal to the number of electrons lost, gained or shared by one atom of the element during a chemical reaction.

valency of oxygen is -2 , valency of sodium is +1 . So when we write a compound name of sodium oxide. Do you know how it become Na2O . Because when valency sodium is +1 and valency of oxygen is -2. So when it react with each other it forms Na2O.

Valency of silicon is +4 and valency of chlorine is -1
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