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Valence   /vˈeɪləns/   Listen
Valence

noun
1.
(biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate.  Synonym: valency.
2.
(chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent).  Synonym: valency.



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"Valence" Quotes from Famous Books



... worthy to be prevyd of there offices, and never after to bere stat in the citee. Also in this yere after Trynyte Sonedaye was the parlement at Oxenford, where aroos a gret discord betweye the barons on the too partye, and Audymere eslyte of Wynchestre, William Valence, Geffrey of Wynchestre, and the kynges brethren, on the other partie, for divers trespaces and transgressions; wherefore the kynges brethren were somond to come to the parlement at Wynchestre; and whanne the parlement ...
— A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 • Anonymous

... asked for appointments in a regiment stationed at Valence, known by the style of La Fere. Des Mazis had a brother in it; the ardent young Corsican would be nearer his native land, and might, perhaps, be detached for service in his home. They were both nominated in September, ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. I. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

... official entertainments, which were not at all to my personal taste, were repeated all along the road till we got to Toulon, marked by increasing animation and fervour as we got farther south, and as the population through which we passed became more and more divided by political passions. At Valence I found an enormous crowd of people, and the garrison and National Guard both under arms, while a tall lieutenant-colonel, of the 49th Regiment of the Line, insisted on my ...
— Memoirs • Prince De Joinville



Words linked to "Valence" :   chemistry, power, powerfulness, covalency, biology, univalent, biological science, double, bivalent, polyvalent, chemical science, monovalent, multivalent



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