On bombardment with slow neutrons, its uranium-235 isotope will most of the time divide into two smaller nuclei, releasing nuclear binding energy and more neutrons.
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In order to quantify the energy released or absorbed in any nuclear transmutation, one must know the nuclear binding energies of the nuclear components involved in the transmutation.
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Can an extremely strong black hole-like gravitation overcome nuclear binding energy and pull atomic nuclei apart, initiating nuclear fission and subsequent nuclear explosion of an object?
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So it seems that there should be an increase in nuclear binding energy, rather than a decrease . talk ) 19 : 11, 25 April 2014 ( UTC)
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:: : I just noticed that the article says that nuclear binding energy is always positive, but that's just because they're using the opposite sign convention.
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As seen above in the example of deuterium, nuclear binding energies are large enough that they may be easily measured as fractional mass deficits, according to the equivalence of mass and energy.
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Nuclear binding energy can be computed from the difference in mass of a nucleus, and the sum of the masses of the number of free neutrons and protons that make up the nucleus.
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:Nuclear binding energy is your relevant article on the energy source and why the left part ( up to iron ) of the talk ) 16 : 54, 18 October 2011 ( UTC)
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:The nuclear binding energy is actually negative, but that's not important; what's important is that the binding energy per nucleon is different for different elements ( and isotopes ).
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If energy is released in fusion, the total nuclear binding energy goes down in my convention, up in the article's .-- talk ) 16 : 25, 31 October 2012 ( UTC)
