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Jan 9, 2017 at 10:00 history edited rob
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May 25, 2015 at 8:58 history edited ProfRob CC BY-SA 3.0
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May 25, 2015 at 8:48 comment added QCD_IS_GOOD Sorry, I meant the nuclear binding energy
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May 25, 2015 at 8:46 comment added ProfRob @JoshuaLin The nuclear binding energy of hydrogen is zero. The hydrogen atom in its ground state has a binding energy of 13.6 eV. It is bound because it has a binding energy. Can you be clearer in your question about what definition of binding energy you want to know about.
May 25, 2015 at 7:41 comment added QCD_IS_GOOD Why would hydrogen have a binding energy? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_atom Wikipedia says the binding energy of hydrogen is exactly 0?
May 25, 2015 at 7:39 comment added John Duffield Like what CuriousOne said, yes. Think of hydrogen. You've got one nucleon, a proton. You've also got an electron. The binding energy is -13.6keV. An incoming photon comes along, the electron jumps to a different orbital, and the binding energy has changed.
May 25, 2015 at 1:41 comment added CuriousOne Yes, but very weakly. There are tiny chemical modulations of nuclear energies, so in theory nuclear decays and reactions are susceptible to chemical composition, temperature, pressure etc.. but the effects are so small that they can be neglected for all purposes as far as I know.
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