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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As with core levels, there are various approaches to the computation of valence level binding energies.
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Bonding may be ionic or covalent, depending on whether valence electrons are transferred or shared.
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In a pure semiconductor the valence band is essentially filled and the higher conduction band essentially empty.
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In molecules with unpaired valence electrons, spin-spin coupling between valence and core electrons leads to further small splittings.
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The patient will often refuse to go into a valence because he hates it.
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We know the way a patient gets into valences when he dramatizes his engrams in life.
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We see, then, that time, in the Orphic cosmological framework, has three valences.