valence

The valence quarks, however, continue to carry much of the proton's forward motion.

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

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

Spirituality takes on previously unconsidered valences in the canvases of Wally Hedrick and Carlos Villa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

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

For Umrigar, “India” is another word with many valences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2022

In those compounds which consist of two elements directly combined, the union is between such numbers of the two atoms as have equal valences.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson