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  2. Redox gradient - Wikipedia

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    Start points of arrows indicate energy associated with half-cell reaction. Lengths of arrows indicate an estimate of Gibb's free energy (ΔG) for the reaction where a higher ΔG is more energetically favorable (Adapted from Libes, 2011). [3] A redox gradient is a series of reduction-oxidation reactions sorted according to redox potential.

  3. Negative energy - Wikipedia

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    The negative-energy particle then crosses the event horizon into the black hole, with the law of conservation of energy requiring that an equal amount of positive energy should escape. In the Penrose process , a body divides in two, with one half gaining negative energy and falling in, while the other half gains an equal amount of positive ...

  4. Specific potential energy - Wikipedia

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    The potential has units of energy per mass, e.g., J/kg in the MKS system. By convention, it is always negative where it is defined, and as x tends to infinity, it approaches zero. The gravitational field, and thus the acceleration of a small body in the space around the massive object, is the negative gradient of the gravitational potential ...

  5. Conservative force - Wikipedia

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    The force can be written as the negative gradient of a potential, : =. Proof that these three conditions are equivalent when F is a force field Main article: Conservative vector field

  6. Potential gradient - Wikipedia

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    The simplest definition for a potential gradient F in one dimension is the following: [1] = = where ϕ(x) is some type of scalar potential and x is displacement (not distance) in the x direction, the subscripts label two different positions x 1, x 2, and potentials at those points, ϕ 1 = ϕ(x 1), ϕ 2 = ϕ(x 2).

  7. Chemical potential - Wikipedia

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    In thermodynamics, the chemical potential of a species is the energy that can be absorbed or released due to a change of the particle number of the given species, e.g. in a chemical reaction or phase transition.

  8. Chemiosmosis - Wikipedia

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    An ion gradient has potential energy and can be used to power chemical reactions when the ions pass through a channel (red). Hydrogen ions, or protons , will diffuse from a region of high proton concentration to a region of lower proton concentration, and an electrochemical concentration gradient of protons across a membrane can be harnessed to ...

  9. Scalar potential - Wikipedia

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    It has a potential energy = where U is the gravitational potential energy and h is the height above the surface. This means that gravitational potential energy on a contour map is proportional to altitude. On a contour map, the two-dimensional negative gradient of the altitude is a two-dimensional vector field, whose vectors are always ...