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Categories: Chemical bonding, Articles with short description
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covalence  covalency
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Valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share WordNet 3.0
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Valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The number of electrons that a particular atom can share (and therefore the number of covalent bonds it can form). Wiktionary
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