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Grade 12th passOrganic Chemistry

what is valency of caco3 in organic chemistry can you tell me the answer please

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10 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Bhavya
10 Years ago
Valency is the combinig capacity of an element and CaCO3 is a compound so here we cannot talk of the term valency.
However the valency of Ca is +2 whereas valency of CO3 is -2.
Profile image of arun
10 Years ago
electrovlency of CaCO3 is 2 as 2 electrons are donated by calcium to carbonate ion. as carbonate is a polyatomic atomic ion with 2 negative charge and calcium ion have 2 positive charge and due to electrostatic attraction the form a molecule CaCO3