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Lesson: Chapter 3 — The Structure of Matter

3.7. Chemical formulae 3 of 13

Question 3

Which of these elements has more than one valency?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Sulphur — its valency is 6 or 2.

Among the first twenty elements, three have two values: phosphorus (5, 3), sulphur (6, 2) and chlorine (7, 1). The rest have one each — sodium 1, calcium 2, aluminium 3.

Answer the question to continue.