Timeline for How can the binding energy per nucleon graph be useful if you can't compare "all" products with "all" reactants?
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| Jan 13, 2023 at 11:23 | vote | accept | Authentic Melody | ||
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| Jan 12, 2023 at 17:55 | answer | added | John Rennie | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 12, 2023 at 8:21 | history | edited | Authentic Melody | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 11, 2023 at 16:13 | history | edited | John Rennie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 11, 2023 at 15:36 | comment | added | Jon Custer | For a particular reaction, you look at the Q value - the energy required or released. Go to ENSDF (say nndc.bnl.gov/ensdf), enter 234, find the U238 alpha decay, and note that Q = 4269.7 keV - it is exothermic. | |
| Jan 11, 2023 at 15:07 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Why is binding energy per nucleon even a worry here - the real point is an overall energy balance. But, you know that there are at least some reactions from splitting up U238 into daughter products that will result in an overall energy release. | |
| Jan 11, 2023 at 14:42 | history | asked | Authentic Melody | CC BY-SA 4.0 |