Friday, 5 October 2018

nuclear physics - What exactly is binding energy?


I've been reading on radioactivity but along the way I got confused, if binding energy is the amount of energy used in holding the nucleus together then why is binding energy also the amount of energy used in breaking the nucleus apart, shouldn't the energy required to break the nucleus apart be greater than the initial energy?




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