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Also Known As valency • valence number

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Kekule
August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist
Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist
John Ulric Nef
American chemist
Frankland
Sir Edward Frankland
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Archibald Scott Couper
Scottish chemist
Abegg, Richard Wilhelm Heinrich
Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg
German chemist
Julius Stieglitz
American chemist

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