noun
- Plural of basicity; the quality or degree to which a substance is basic (alkaline) or the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms in an acid.
Usage: chemistry; technical
Examples
- The basicities of different compounds vary depending on their chemical composition.
- In chemistry class, we compared the basicities of several solutions using pH indicators.
- The basicity of ammonia differs from the basicities of other nitrogen-containing bases.
- Researchers measured the basicities of the new compounds to determine their reactivity.