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Definition of Covalence
1. Noun. Valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share.
Definition of Covalence
1. Noun. (chemistry) A form of valence in which electrons are shared between participating atoms ¹
2. Noun. (chemistry) The number of electrons that a particular atom can share (and therefore the number of covalent bonds it can form) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Covalence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Covalence
Literary usage of Covalence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"In each atom of these compounds the covalence is equal to the negative valence so
... Thus the covalence of the fluorine decreases to zero while that of the ..."
2. Lydgate and Burgh's Secrees of Old Philisoffres: A Version of the 'Secreta by John Lydgate, Benedict Burgh, Robert Steele (1894)
"10, 1. 314. Celestial, a rather badly chosen epithet. p. 11, 1. 317. covalence.
Lydgate makes Valence into covalence, for the sake of the verse. p. 11, 1. ..."
3. Contemporary Science by Benjamin Harrow (1921)
"One of the particular advantages of the present theory is that it becomes easy
to distinguish between covalence and the other types and thus to predict with ..."
4. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1864)
"... to covalence, and after [by] the Rhine, or by land, using the lodgings he had
assigned. The Cardinal Gurck, who has been ill for this year past, ..."
5. An Introduction to the Principles of Physical Chemistry from the Standpoint by Edward Wight Washburn (1921)
"... and covalence, Ibid., 41,1543; and The Octet Theory. of Valence, Ibid., 42,
274 (1920). 6. The Periodic System.—Table XXXVIII shows the arrangement of ..."
6. The Book of the Gouernaunce of Kynges and of Prynces: Die von Lydgate und by Theodor Prosiegel (1903)
"V. 317: in the Citee covalence. Wohl der schlechte Rhythmus veranlasst L, H, s,
a (P'f) l Abhilfe durch Streichung von the zu schaffen. ..."
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