GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The energy required to separate the nucleons in a nucleus to infinity is called Binding Energy . This is equal to the energy released if the nucleons are brought together from infinity to form the nucleus.

Detailed explanation-2: -The total mass of a nucleus is less than the mass of its constituent nucleons. This means that if a compound nucleus is formed from nucleons there is a loss of mass which, by Einstein’s mass-energy relation, E=mc2, is released as energy. This energy is known as the binding energy.

Detailed explanation-3: -The process releases energy because the total mass of the resulting single nucleus is less than the mass of the two original nuclei. The leftover mass becomes energy. Einstein’s equation (E=mc2), which says in part that mass and energy can be converted into each other, explains why this process occurs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nuclear binding energy can also be defined as the energy released during the formation of a hypothetical nucleus from its protons and neutrons.

Detailed explanation-5: -Nuclear binding energy is defined as the minimum amount of energy required to disassemble or break down an atom’s nucleus into the subatomic particles that make it up (which are protons and neutrons).