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Which of the following is a wrong description of binding energy of a nucleus?

A

It is the enegry required to break a nucleus into its constituent nucleous

B

It is the enegry made available when free nucleons combine to from a nucleus

C

It is the sun of the rest mass energies of its nucleons minus the rest mass energy of the nucleus

D

It is the sun of kinetic energy of all the nucleons in the nucleus

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  5. If the binding energy per nucleon in L i^7 and He^4 nuclei are respect...

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  6. Average binding energy per nucleon over a wide range is

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  7. A neutron is thermal equilibrium at room temperature. Its enegry would...

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  8. The binding energy per nucleon number for deutron H(1)^(2)and helium...

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  9. For nuclei with A gt 100, (i) the binding energy of the nucleus decr...

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  10. As the mass number A increases, which of the following quantities rela...

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  11. The heavier nuclei tend to have larger N//Z ratio because

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  12. A free neutron decays to a proton but a free proton does not decay to ...

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  13. The binding energies per nucleon for a deuteron and an alpha-particle ...

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  14. The binding energy of deuteron .1^2 H is 1.112 MeV per nucleon and an ...

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  15. Binding energy per nucleons vs mass curve for nucleus is shown in the ...

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  16. In the nuclear reaction : X (n, alpha)3 Li^7 the term X will be 3

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  17. In nuclear reactions, we have the conservation of

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  18. In the alpha-decay process occuring in different types of nuclei at re...

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  19. The phenomenon of pair production is the

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  20. Following process is known as hv rarr e^(+) +e^(-)

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