valence

valence - noun

(biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate

(chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent)

valence - thesaurus

Scrabble score = 12

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