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Whelan Whelan
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8 years ago
The sum of the masses of the protons and neutrons in a given nucleus minus the mass of that nucleus is always
A) negative.
B) positive.
C) temperature dependent.
D) zero.
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8 years ago
A) negative.

It's called the mass defect and is the mass equivalent of the total binding energy of the nucleons.
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