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What is the mass defect in a nucleus?
What is the mass defect in a nucleus?
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What is the mass defect in a nucleus?
The difference between the mass of the nucleus and the sum of the masses of its nucleons
The mass of the nucleus itself
The mass of the electrons surrounding the nucleus
The mass of the binding energy
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The mass defect is the difference between the mass of the nucleus and the sum of the masses of its individual nucleons.
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The mass defect is the difference between the mass of the nucleus and the sum of the masses of its individual nucleons.
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Step 1: Understand that a nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, which are called nucleons.
Step 2: Find out the mass of each individual nucleon (protons and neutrons) when they are separate.
Step 3: Add up the masses of all the individual nucleons to get a total mass.
Step 4: Measure the actual mass of the nucleus as a whole.
Step 5: Subtract the total mass of the individual nucleons from the actual mass of the nucleus.
Step 6: The result is called the mass defect, which shows how much mass is 'lost' when nucleons come together to form a nucleus.
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