of or containing silver in the divalent or trivalent state
argentic in American English
(ɑrˈdʒɛntɪk)
adjective
of or containing divalent silver
Word origin
< L argentum (see argent + -ic
argentic in American English
(ɑːrˈdʒentɪk)
adjective
Chemistry
of or containing silver and having a valence greater than the corresponding argentous compound
Word origin
[1865–70; argent- + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: batting average, dunk, figure skating, racism, valence-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)