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In
a potential energy
surface, the region surrounding a local energy
minimum. Typically taken to include at least those points in configuration space such that a path
of steadily declining energy
can be found that leads to the minimum in question, and such that no similar
path can be found to any other minimum. If the PES were a landscape, this
would be the region around the minimum that could be filled with water
without any flowing down and away toward another minimum.
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