valence
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Rather than the valence quarks carrying baryon number, the junction itself could be responsible.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Physicists first proposed the baryon junction, also called a gluon junction, in the 1970s as a way to describe how gluons connect the valence quarks inside a proton.
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
Dahlia Lithwick: I would love for you to talk about religion, because there’s such a strong religious valence to so much of this much.
From Slate ● May 8, 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
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
It will thus be seen that the structure of a compound must be known before the valences of the atoms making up the compound can be definitely decided upon.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson
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Chemistry - High School
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