What is valency ?........
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The valency of an element is the number of hydrogen atoms that can combine with or replace (either directly or indirectly) one atom of the element. ... For example, oxygen has six valence electrons, but its valency is 2. Some elements may have more than one combining power (or valency), while others have just one.
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the combining power of an element, especially as measured by the number of hydrogen atoms it can displace or combine with.
"carbon always has a valency of 4"
the number of grammatical elements with which a particular word, especially a verb, combines in a sentence.
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