equivalent weight

noun

, Chemistry.

1. the combining power, especially in grams gram equivalent, of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence.

equivalent weight

noun

1. the weight of an element or compound that will combine with or displace 8 grams of oxygen or 1.007 97 grams of hydrogen Also calledgram equivalent

Word History and Origins

Origin of equivalent weight¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

In 2021, the company, according to its own annual report, used more than 750,000 metric tons of plastic containers for its products — the equivalent weight of 74 Eiffel Towers.

From Salon

“The training also encourages offices to use social media to communicate both hazards with equivalent weight, to make it clear that both threats are possible during an event,” Boustead said.

From Washington Post

Part of this new generation, the Ever Given is a veritable giantcompared to older models, able to carry the equivalent weight of 1,600 Statues of Liberty across the ocean.

From Salon

Those questions arise organically in “I’m Your Woman,” which, for all its ’70s feminist-noir revisionism, gives stealthily equivalent weight to the Black characters who find themselves drawn, less by will than necessity, into Jean’s desperate orbit.

From Los Angeles Times

If no action is taken, however, the amount of plastic going into the sea every year will rise from 11 million tonnes to 29 million tonnes, leaving a cumulative 600 million tonnes swilling in the ocean by 2040, the equivalent weight of 3 million blue whales, according to the study published in the journal Science.

From Reuters