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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_binding_energy
What is nuclear binding energy ?
Here are two possible answers according to the Wikipedia page :
1.Nuclear binding energy is the energy required to split a nucleus of an atom into its component parts.
2.Nuclei are made up of protons and neutron, but the mass of a nucleus is always less than the sum of the individual masses of the protons and neutrons which constitute it. The difference is a measure of the nuclear binding energy which holds the nucleus together.
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are both of them trying to tell the same thing ?
What is nuclear binding energy ?
Here are two possible answers according to the Wikipedia page :
1.Nuclear binding energy is the energy required to split a nucleus of an atom into its component parts.
2.Nuclei are made up of protons and neutron, but the mass of a nucleus is always less than the sum of the individual masses of the protons and neutrons which constitute it. The difference is a measure of the nuclear binding energy which holds the nucleus together.
Which one is it ?
Or
are both of them trying to tell the same thing ?