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  • noun Plural form of valence.

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Examples

  • I realized the amazing power of the valences of Valentine's Day when I did my five-year stint as a psychotherapist and team leader at a residential treatment center years ago.

    Carol Smaldino: A Torn Valentine Carol Smaldino 2012

  • He's made handcrafted tables, faceplates, valences, and overhead consoles, usually from oak or maple, finishing them with the gloss that gives Kimball grand pianos and Fender guitars their shine.

    Andy Kroll: Unemployed: Stranded on the Sidelines of a Jobs Crisis Andy Kroll 2010

  • For the first prize in 1901 the Academy had to consider 20 nominations, but no less than 11 of these named van't Hoff, who was also chosen by the Committee for Chemistry. van't Hoff had already during his thesis work in Utrecht in 1874 published his suggestion that the carbon atom has its four valences directed towards the corners of a regular tetrahedron, a concept which is the very foundation of modern organic chemistry.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

  • I realized the amazing power of the valences of Valentine's Day when I did my five-year stint as a psychotherapist and team leader at a residential treatment center years ago.

    Carol Smaldino: A Torn Valentine Carol Smaldino 2012

  • I realized the amazing power of the valences of Valentine's Day when I did my five-year stint as a psychotherapist and team leader at a residential treatment center years ago.

    Carol Smaldino: A Torn Valentine Carol Smaldino 2012

  • He's made handcrafted tables, faceplates, valences, and overhead consoles, usually from oak or maple, finishing them with the gloss that gives Kimball grand pianos and Fender guitars their shine.

    Andy Kroll: Unemployed: Stranded on the Sidelines of a Jobs Crisis Andy Kroll 2010

  • This stereochemical concept rests on the original suggestion by van't Hoff of the tetrahedral arrangement of the four valences of the carbon atom (see Section 2), and most organic molecules exist in two or more stable conformations.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

  • He's made handcrafted tables, faceplates, valences, and overhead consoles, usually from oak or maple, finishing them with the gloss that gives Kimball grand pianos and Fender guitars their shine.

    Andy Kroll: Unemployed: Stranded on the Sidelines of a Jobs Crisis Andy Kroll 2010

  • I realized the amazing power of the valences of Valentine's Day when I did my five-year stint as a psychotherapist and team leader at a residential treatment center years ago.

    Carol Smaldino: A Torn Valentine Carol Smaldino 2012

  • I majored in chemistry, in part because it came more easily to me, and in part because I liked that the answers were either right or wrong, unlike in real life, where emotional valences count.

    Why does terrorism fascinate me? Because of the terror in my past. Jessica Stern 2010

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