Physics · 2021
NEET 2021 · 12 September · Code M1 · Q7
A nucleus with mass number 240 breaks into two fragments each of mass number 120, the binding energy per nucleon of unfragmented nuclei is 7.6 MeV…
A nucleus with mass number $\displaystyle 240$ breaks into two fragments each of mass number $\displaystyle 120$, the binding energy per nucleon of unfragmented nuclei is $\displaystyle 7.6$ MeV while that of fragments is $\displaystyle 8.5$ MeV. The total gain in the Binding Energy in the process is :
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$\displaystyle 216$ MeV
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