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hey everyone. looking forward to exposure to new ideas and challenging the old ones, a lot of mind boggling questions, sort of adds to the fun i think and of course, DISCUSSIONS. got a question in a thread titled confusion over packing fraction, if you guys could look it up and offer any help...

so what i understand is that packing fraction is mass defect per nucleon. mass defect is the difference between total mass of the nucleons and the actual mass of the nucleus of an atom. if A=mass number [M][/p]=mass of proton [M][/n]=mass of neutron M=mass of nucleus then packing...