Usually means: Having a valence of three.
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  1. tervalent: Merriam-Webster
  2. tervalent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tervalent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tervalent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tervalent: Wordnik
  6. tervalent: Wiktionary
  7. tervalent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. tervalent: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. tervalent: Dictionary.com
  10. tervalent: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (chemistry) trivalent.

Similar:
trivalent, tetravalent, monovalent, pentavalent, sexvalent, hexavalent, sexivalent, divalent, pentacovalent, quinquivalent, more...

Opposite:
monovalent, divalent, trivalent, quadrivalent, multivalent

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Similar:
trivalent, tetravalent, monovalent, pentavalent, sexvalent, hexavalent, sexivalent, divalent, pentacovalent, quinquivalent, more...

Opposite:
monovalent, divalent, trivalent, quadrivalent, multivalent



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