a measurement that shows the number of hydrogen atoms that can combine with one atom of a particular chemical element to make a compound, used to describe how easily an element can connect in a chemical way with others

Zinc has a valency of 2. 锌是二价元素。

His theory was that carbon had a combining power (valency) of four or two and a unique capacity for joining itself to other atoms of its own kind.

Sodium is useful in a great many compounds as a substitute for one of the two atoms of hydrogen (also valence 1) in a variety of acids.