The neuron's resting potential is essential for its ability to fire action potentials in response to stimuli.

Meteorologists often use potential temperature to compare air masses at different pressures.

Changes in membrane potential can trigger the opening of voltage-gated ion channels during an action potential.

The velocity potential simplifies the analysis of an inviscid, irrotational flow by allowing the velocity field to be expressed as the gradient of a scalar function.

The chemist measured the normal potential of the half-cell to predict whether the reaction would proceed spontaneously.

Linguists compared the potential moods across different dialects to understand how speakers express possibility.

In many language textbooks, the potential mood is described as expressing possibility rather than certainty.

Graduate students calculated the potential energies of multiple molecular conformations to compare their stabilities.

The experiment mapped several potential wells within the semiconductor device.

When comparing batteries of different capacities, measuring the potential differences across their terminals helps determine which one will power the device longer.