Nucleus strong force binding

The difference in mass is significant. It would show up on any reasonably precise balance. Thus, the mass of the nucleus of carbon-12 is significantly less than the mass of its component nucleons. The difference in mass between a nucleus and its nucleons is known as the mass defect. What causes this mass defect It is caused by the nuclear binding energy the energy associated with the strong force that holds a nucleus together. 

We know that the nuclear force is strongly attractive, binding nucleons together to form a densely packed nucleus. Experiments involving the scattering... 

Nucleons (protons and neutrons) occupy a small volume at the center of the atom. The binding energy of the nucleus is attributed to a strong force (nuclear) acting over a very short distance. 

Strong force the force that binds together the particles inside an atom s nucleus. 

As a result of quark confinement, the observed range of the strong interaction between two hadrons is quite limited, it is about 1 fm= 10 m, close to the size of the atomic nucleus. That means that the nuclear force binding the nucleus is the relatively weak tail of the color interaction appearing outside the nucleons, similarly to the chemical bond or to the van der Waals forces acting among neutral molecules or atoms, due to the Coulomb interaction within the atom. 

The strong force is the force binding the protons and neutrons in a nucleus together, overcoming the powerfnl electromagnetic repulsion between positively charged protons. 

As described in Chapter 2, nuclei with more than one nucleon are held together by the strong nuclear force. Energy must be provided to overcome this force and remove a nucleon from a nucleus. This energy is called the nuclear binding energy. 

Strong Nuclear Force force responsible for binding the nucleons of an atom s nucleus together... 

A strong nuclear force carried by particles called gluons binds together protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus. When an atom is split, energy from the atomic nucleus is released. The amount of energy released is predicted by the equation, e = me2. 

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