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From: Bob Muir
To: teachers physics
Subject: chart of nuclides
Date: Thursday, April 18, 1996 10:48 AM
This question probably has a simple answer, but I haven't been able to
find one in any of my nuclear physics texts.
I've been using the info from the following url:
"http://necs01.dne.bnl.gov/CoN/index.html">Chart of the Nuclides
For each element, there is reported an "Excess Mass", e.g.,
tritium: 14949 keV
helium 4: 2425 keV
carbon 14: 3029 keV
carbon 12: 0
Iron 56: -60601 keV
What IS excess mass? Maybe its supposed to be obvious, but I've got a
bad cold and maybe my brain is mush today.