support staff meaning, support staff definition | English Cobuild dictionary. support. 1 verb If you support someone or their ideas or aims, you agree with them, and perhaps help them because you want them to succeed. (=back) (Antonym: oppose) The vice president insisted that he supported the hard-working people of New York... V n.
The valence shell is the outer shell of the atom. Some materials have a free electron in their valence shell and this electron can easily move from atom to atom. The free electrons are responsible for electrical current.
In chemistry, a valence electron is an electron that is associated with an atom, and that can participate in the formation of a chemical bond; in a single covalent bond, both atoms in the bond contribute one valence electron in order to form a shared pair.nstead, a valence electron for a transition metal is defined as an electron that resides outside a noble-gas core. For example, manganese (Mn) has configuration 1s 2 2s 2 2p 6 3s 2 3p 6 4s 2 3d 5; this is abbreviated to [Ar] 4s 2 3d 5, where [Ar] denotes a core configuration identical to that of the noble gas argon.