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Question
How mass defect is related to the stability of the nucleus?
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Solution
Nuclear binding energy and the size of the mass defect are inversely correlated and both numbers represent the stability of the nucleus. A nucleus is more stable than its isolated components, much as a molecule is more stable (lower in energy) than its individual atoms.
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