🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

valencia

Pronunciation / Transliteration: valencia

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Valence/ˈveɪ.ləns/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Los electrones de valencia participan en la formación de enlaces."

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As noun
  1. 1

    The combining power of an element, especially as measured by the number of hydrogen atoms it can displace or combine with.

    "Carbon has a valence of four in most organic compounds."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin valentia, meaning 'strength' or 'capacity', stemming from valere ('to be strong or worthy'). Originally entering English in the 19th century via chemistry to describe combining capacity, the term later expanded into linguistics and psychology to denote the intrinsic attractiveness or aversiveness of an event, object, or situation.

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