Nuclear

Question	Answer
Binding energy	It is the amount of energy that is released when a nucleus is assembled from its component nucleons.
Binding energy per nucleon	It is the amount of energy that is released when a nucleus is assembled from its component nucleons divided by the number of nucleons making up the nucleus.
Mass defect	The difference between the sum of constituents of a nucleus and the mass of the nucleus.
Unified atomic mass	It is equal to 1/12 of the mass of a carbon atom.
Mass/Nucleon number	The total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of a atom.
Atomic/Proton number	The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom.
Neutron number	The number of nucleus of an atom.
Isotopes	Nuclei with the same proton number but different nucleon number
Ionisation	The gain of lost of an electron from an atom.
Radioactive half-life	It is the time taken for half the unstable nuclei in a given sample to decay.

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