binding energy

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Because Oph 98 A and B are so light and so widely separated, the system has the lowest gravitational binding energy of any known binary pair.

From Scientific American

By damping trash onto the surface of the white dwarf, one could harvest its gravitational binding energy from the emitted electromagnetic radiation at nearly the yield of nuclear fuel.

From Scientific American

The binding energy of an atom or ion — the energy required to break the atom into its free electrons and a nucleus — is different in an excited metastable state from that in the ground state.

From Nature

This so-called “Hawking radiation” is enabled by the gravitational binding energy of virtual particles that end inside the black hole.

From Scientific American

The report says the climate targets were weakened as a result; they included no binding energy savings target and included a “woefully inadequate” renewable energy target.

From The Guardian