Background There are several ‘binding energies’ in science. Confinement of Quarks Initially the Quarks (of lightest generation) and Gluons are ‘de-confined’ as a plasma of quarks and gluons. Then they get ‘confined’ into baryons and mesons. Three quarks combine to form baryons (protons and neutrons) and quark/anti-quark pairs combine to form mesons. In the ‘de-confined’ state the strong force is spread across. Once Quarks get confined into baryons, the strong force gets limited to baryonic distances. This ‘confinement’ of quarks into baryons and mesons is also a ‘binding’. But the terminology binding energy is not used to denote this. This is called ‘Confinement’ of quarks. Vrsakapi is NOT about this confinement of quarks. Residual nuclear force field Residual N uclear force is an attractive force that acts between all nucleons (baryons) at the short distances between them (about 2 x 10 -15 m). Within the nucleus, where the protons and neutrons are very clo