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[QUOTE="Volta, post: 6178786, member: 652582"] Hi. My high school physics book doesn't elaborate the idea of binding energy and how it's related to fissions and fuisions adequately in a way that made me have wrong thoughts about these ideas. What i understand after doing some research is that: - Binding energy is the energy that has to be given for nucleons to separate them from each other. - Nucleons in stable nucleus have negative energy considering the energy of a free static nucleon to be the reference energy. My questions and confusions: - in fissions, does the nucleus divide because of the collision between the neutron and the heavy nucleus, or because the nucleus would become unstable after the mass number has increased. - this question is related to the above one ; neutrons are supposed to be the main factor of nucleus stability because it contributes in the strong force. why does adding a new neutron or more to any nucleus without changing the number of protons, make the nucleus unstable? - My book mentions that when alpha decay happens ,a decrease in mass turns into kinetic energy gained by the products. does it mean the decrease of mass because of the lost neutrons and protons or what? - the process of losing mass for energy and vice versas in fissions and fuisions, shouldn't the mass for the neutrons shot out of the mass increase and that's it? where would energy come from? [/QUOTE]
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