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Combining weight   /kəmbˈaɪnɪŋ weɪt/   Listen
verb
Combine  v. i.  
1.
To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate. "You with your foes combine, And seem your own destruction to design" "So sweet did harp and voice combine."
2.
To unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third.
3.
(Card Playing) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.
Combining weight (Chem.), that proportional weight, usually referred to hydrogen as a standard, and for each element fixed and exact, by which an element unites with another to form a distinct compound. The combining weights either are identical with, or are multiples or submultiples of, the atomic weight. See Atomic weight, under Atomic, a.






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