valence
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Meanwhile, the valence quarks that were previously connected by the junction can continue moving forward along the beampipe.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The valence quarks, however, continue to carry much of the proton's forward motion.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Audiences from all backgrounds found valence to a story that I found to be more about assimilation than antisemitism.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
They talk to Professor Jack Balkin about its religious valence, and Saul Cornell about originalism’s first major constitutional triumph in Heller.
From Slate ● May 4, 2024
Egged on by scheming courtiers and generals, relations between Atawallpa and Washkar spent several years swinging through the emotional valence from concealed suspicion to overt hostility.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Spirituality takes on previously unconsidered valences in the canvases of Wally Hedrick and Carlos Villa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
That language also has multiple valences and meanings.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2024
The emotional valences are thus much more complicated this time around, and to accommodate the complexities, the picture is close to three hours long, the longest of the series by far.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
In this sense, Mitchell’s and Minnelli’s appearances carried slightly different emotional valences.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
When elements combine to form compounds, the ratio in which they combine will be determined by their valences.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson
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Chemistry - High School
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Chemistry - Middle School
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