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Highest naturally occuring binding energy of electrons
I was wondering which element has the highest binding energy of an electron. Is it simply the 1s electron of the heaviest stable element? If so, can somebody tell me where I can find a table of ...
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Why are alpha particles such a prominent form of radiation and not other types of nucleon arrangement?
It is said in many textbooks that alpha decay involves emitting alpha particles, which are very stable. Indeed, the binding energy (~28.3 MeV) is higher than for $Z$-neighboring stable isotopes. But ...
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Mass defect- From where mass is being lost?
As a school student, I have wondered while studying mass defect the following mysterious problem
My assumption
Just like a car's mass is constituted by each part of it(i.e total mass of car will be ...
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What if the binding energy becomes larger than the rest mass?
Looking at the equation for binding energy and mass defect,
$$
B = m_{\text{free}} - m_{\text{bound}} \\
\Rightarrow m_{\text{bound}} = m_{\text{free}} - B,
$$
my question is the following. Suppose ...
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Potential Energy in General Relativity
I often hear about how general relativity is very complicated because of all forms of energy are considered, including gravitation's own gravitational binding energy. I have two questions:
In ...
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Why is the binding energy per nucleon not zero for hydrogen atom?
The lone proton has not to be worked on against any electrostatic force. So where does the energy come from? What is mass defect for a hydrogen nucleus?
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How fission and fusion create energy? [duplicate]
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How to explain $E=mc^2$ mass defect in fission/fusion
In order for energy to be released, mass has to be "lost", because mass is a form of energy.
In my science class, ...
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How to explain $E=mc^2$ mass defect in fission/fusion
What is the nature of nuclear energy? This is closely related to the correct explanation of mass defect.
I did some research of that topic and cannot come to a single comprehensive and consistent ...
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What happens if an object has more kinetic energy than the Gravitational Binding Energy?
So the binding energy of an object is the amount of energy needed to move it an infinite distance away from another mass to essentially “escape” its gravitational field. But what happens if you give ...
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The “binding energy” of bonded particles adds mass?
This is a follow-up my previous question. Several of the answers indicated that the mass of a particle (atom, proton, etc.) increase with the "binding energy" of it's component particles - the energy ...
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What is the difference between a neutron and hydrogen?
Differences? They are both an electron and a proton, since the neutron decays to a proton and an electron, what's the difference between a neutron and proton + electron? so is it just a higher binding ...
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Binding Energy of He
The graph of nuclear binding energy is relatively smooth going from H to U, except for He4 (alpha particle). Why is He4's binding energy so anomalously high compared to its neighboring isotopes?
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Mass into energy
The mass of a nucleus if less than the mass of the protons and nucleus. The difference is knows as binding energy of the nucleus. This nuclear binding energy is derived from the strong nuclear force. ...
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Obtaining isotope stability
For a given isotope, one can obtain the binding energy using the semi-empirical mass formula.
For example, has a binding energy of 1782.8 MeV. From this information, how can the likelihood of the ...
