Degrees of elements' combining power

Usage examples of valences.

If another person had been present the en-gram would have contained three valences, providing he took any part: herself, her husband and the third person.

In Dianetics, you can see valences turn on and off in people and change with a rapidity which would be awesome to a quick-change artist.

Sometimes the substance must pass through many valences, subtly changed each time, before it can be used by a life form at the end of the chain.

Fiddling around with electron shells, reversing charges and mucking up valences, clogging my gates, turning my circuits to soup.

I should have drawn structural formulas, using Peewee's hands but neither of us had the slightest idea of the structural formula for codeine and couldn't do it even when supplied with kindergarten toys which stuck together only in the valences of the elements they represented.