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covalence
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covalency (US), covalence Chemistry
1. the formation and nature of covalent bonds
2. the number of covalent bonds that a particular atom can make with other atoms in forming a molecule

covalence [kō′vā·ləns]
(chemistry)
The number of covalent bonds which an atom can form.


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The covalent organic frameworks (COFs) reportedly can be made highly porous to increase storage capacity, and consist of hydrogen, boron, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen molecules that form strong covalent bonds with each other.
It also helps that companies like Red Hat and Covalent have figured out, where others couldn't, how to create a sustainable business to compete against the big Kahuna of software, Microsoft.
2002, AMD (NYSE:AMD) announced that Covalent and Red Hat are developing Apache-based Web server software for the upcoming AMD Opteron processors.
 
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