Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The number of electron pairs an atom can share with other atoms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry A form of
valence in whichelectrons are shared between participatingatoms - noun chemistry The number of electrons that a particular atom can share (and therefore the number of
covalent bonds it can form)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share
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Examples
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In proposing a new American government, Paine scoffed caustically at the whole idea of balance and the covalence among branches that we're taught to revere as exceptionally American, but were really derived from the post-Settlement English constitution.
William Hogeland: How John Adams and Thomas Paine Clashed Over Economic Equality William Hogeland 2011
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In proposing a new American government, Paine scoffed caustically at the whole idea of balance and the covalence among branches that we're taught to revere as exceptionally American, but were really derived from the post-Settlement English constitution.
William Hogeland: How John Adams and Thomas Paine Clashed Over Economic Equality William Hogeland 2011
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In addition, new concepts of binding site covalence, estimation of pathway distance and organism specificity were taken into account to identify the best synthetic pathway.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Ayoun Cho 2010
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In addition, new concepts of binding site covalence, estimation of pathway distance and organism specificity were taken into account to identify the best synthetic pathway.
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In addition, new concepts of binding site covalence, estimation of pathway distance and organism specificity were taken into account to identify the best synthetic pathway.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Ayoun Cho 2010
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The covalence is performed by a bi-polar link: when walking, the ants are in a chain where the back, polar a, of an ant is followed by the head, polar b, of the next ant.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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