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This WAS a question---not sure if the above is correct.

Is this how it works? : BE(product) - BE(reactant#1) - BE(reactant#2) => Yield from fusion of product Easy enough, but what if reactant#1 and/or reactant#2 are also products of fusion?? Does the equation need to be broken down even further, or is the final BE for the final reactants...

Exactly, Dr. I highly recommend checking out the interactive Table of Nuclides I mentioned above--link provided. It is awesome! And I agree with Dr. about the usefulness of the Periodic Table--great for Chemistry, but of limited value in our applications.

Excellent! Many thanx!

I'm sorry for all the confusion--I wasn't trying to calculate ANYTHING---I just wanted to know the proper technique for the addition. It began when I noticed ny fractions were never exactly like the answers. Then I noticed that H1 had a mass that WAS NOT the same as p (a proton). Well Hell's...

I didn't mean atomic mass--it showed a few "sum of parts" masses in examples, from which you would then subtract the measured mass of whole atom to get the mass defect, right? I was really only interested in the proper form for addition--the BE calculation was just as an example of why; not...

I just receiced the same chart in book form--exact same only runs bottom left to upper right, instead of upper left to bottom right. http://www.chartofthenuclides.com/ This online version is interactive and WAY, WAY, WAY cool: http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/

OK, cool. Perhaps in my mind I will use a term like the "standard" isotope of Whatever. Thanx all.

I meant the masses listed in published charts, tables, etc are a little different than the masses I get using Method #1. Doubtful if these differences are large enough, however, to alter the Binding Energy results in any meaningful manner. I was just kinda curious, is all.

Really?? I have found using #1 SOMETIMES give results that are different from other's results, once you get out past 4 decimals or so.

jeez--just thought there might be some cute little name is all--didn't mean to get into who is radioactive and who objects to being 'labeled" radioactive and what "normal" means, or anything like that. I just thought the might be a name for the isotopes like H1, He4, Li6, C12, etc, etc, etc...

Very fast question I didn't want to waste a whole new thread on--- what is the proper term for an element in it's "pure" isotope--the isotope when the neutrons and protons are equal in number--it's natural and most common (I'd think) state?

Question--Proper form for nuclear addition Homework Statement Say I am doing Binding Energy calculations, and I want to know the sum of mass for all the parts for, say, Carbon12 (C12). Which of the following is the correct form: Homework Equations 1.) 6p + 6n = total 2.) 6(H1) +...

Fusion for power?? I am guessing that the Coulomb Barrier is the major problem? What exactly is necessary to breach the Barrier, as far as the amount of energy, heat, velocity of proton, etc, etc. If the Barrier COULD be breached without destroying the city at the same time, what other...

The 78.24MeV is also wrong--I used the mass for Carbon12 off of the Periodical Table--which, as you know, is NOT the mass of C12, but the average mass of all the C isotopes. I will now retreat and regroup! lol :) :) :)