Fission and fusion
The above graph shows the average binding energy per nucleon. Which of the following statements is true?
a. The sum of the atomic weights of two atoms produced by the fission of one fissile atom is always less than the atomic weight of the original atom.
b. Iron (Fe) has the most stable atomic nuclei.
c. An element which has a smaller mass number than iron(Fe) has a tendency of fission rather than fusion because of its relatively small binding energy.
This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try
refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and,
finally, (c)
loading the
non-javascript version of this page
. We're sorry about the hassle.
0 solutions
No explanations have been posted yet. Check back later!