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Assertion: Energy is released when heavy nuclei undergo fission or light nuclei undergo fusion.
Reason: For heavy nuclei, binding energy per nucleon increases with increasing Z while for light nuclei it decreases with increasing Z.

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Assertion is True, Reason is True, Reason is a correct explanation for Assertion.

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Assertion is True, Reason is True, Reason is not a correct explanation for Assertion.

C

Assertion is True, Reason is false.

D

Assertion is False but, Reason is True.

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This question contains Statement - 1 and Statement -2 Of the four choice given after the Statements , choose the one that best decribes the two Statements Statement- 1: Energy is reased when heavy underge fission or light nuclei undergo fasion and Statement- 2: for nuclei , binding energy nucleon increases with increasing Z while for light nuclei it decreases with increasing Z

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As the mass number increase binding energy per nucleon :

When the number of nucleons in a nuclues increases the binding energy per nucleon

As the mass number A increases, the binding energy per nucleon in a nucleus.

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