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Question | Answer |
Binding energy | It is the amount of energy that is released when a nucleus is assembled from its component nucleons. |
Binding energy per nucleon | It is the amount of energy that is released when a nucleus is assembled from its component nucleons divided by the number of nucleons making up the nucleus. |
Mass defect | The difference between the sum of constituents of a nucleus and the mass of the nucleus. |
Unified atomic mass | It is equal to 1/12 of the mass of a carbon atom. |
Mass/Nucleon number | The total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of a atom. |
Atomic/Proton number | The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom. |
Neutron number | The number of nucleus of an atom. |
Isotopes | Nuclei with the same proton number but different nucleon number |
Ionisation | The gain of lost of an electron from an atom. |
Radioactive half-life | It is the time taken for half the unstable nuclei in a given sample to decay. |
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