Valence is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VALENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a chemical bond, also VALENCY
• relating to or denoting electrons involved in or available for chemical bond formation
• The degree of combining power of an atom (or radical) as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom of hydrogen is a monad, and has a valence of one; the atoms of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon are respectively dyads, triads, and tetrads, and have a valence respectively of two, three, and four.
• (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate
• (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the degree of combining power of an element or radical
• same as valency

Words related to VALENCE

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How to use VALENCE in a sentence

• He perceived a slight disorder of the valence of the dressing-table and linked it with this petal by a swift intuition.
• He made two steps, lifted the valence, and behold! there lay his roses crushed together! He gasped like a man who plunges suddenly into cold water.
• An examination of the register of Chart next Sutton Valence, in Kent, which disclosed some very curious facts, has led me to make this inquiry.
• Helen was in the power of De Valence, who pressed his hateful suit upon her.
• Helen had been kidnapped by De Valence, and carried off by him to his castle in Guienne.
• Passing along an aisle leading to the grand hall, we saw the tomb of Aymer de Valence, a knight of the Crusades.
• His son had been forced to pawn his best estates to William of Valence, and the royal exchequer was absolutely empty.
• William of Valence was already back in England, and restored to his old dignities.
• Valence and Warenne hurried from Pembrokeshire and made common cause with Edward and Gilbert.
• He was superseded by William of Valence, whose activity against the Welsh had been quickened by the loss of his son at Llandilo.
• William of Savoy, Bishop-elect of Valence and Winchester.
• General Valence, who had gone over to the Austrians with Dumourier, is ordered to quit the states of the empire.
• At Valence, performances are given every year in the theatre there before an audience of between eight hundred and a thousand teachers.
• Napoleon joined his regiment in 1791, and was promoted to first lieutenant, in the Fourth Artillery, stationed at Valence.
• Valence was our next stopping-place, and we had a world of work to do there during the hour or so that we remained ashore.
• Those upon other ions vary in sign and number according to the chemical character and valence of the atoms or radicals of which the ions are composed.
• Count Bougart of Valence heard it said that they were to hang Aucassin, his enemy, so he came into that place and Aucassin was ware of him.
• Now a German chemist named Kekule, comes along and develops a theory called the valence of atoms.

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