binding energy
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Chemists traditionally think about surface catalysis based on the chemical binding energy of molecules to active sites on the surface, which influences the amount of energy needed for the reaction, he says.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024
This difference in mass is responsible for the binding energy of the nuclei.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
Both materials have semiconducting properties like silicon, but unlike silicon, they can also withstand high temperatures and radiation because of their wide electronic bandgap and high atomic binding energy.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 23, 2023
And with a binding energy of just 8.6 kJ/mol, it must be chilled to about –100°C to store its maximum amount of hydrogen.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 27, 2023
There were no acceleration dampers, no temporal compensators, no autopilot, no four-space computer, and the primaries operated on nuclear rather than binding energy.
From The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
